Baltimore Orioles vs Seattle Mariners | LIVE! Play-by-Play & Commentary | 8/13/25 | Game #120

Baltimore Orioles vs Seattle Mariners | LIVE! Play-by-Play & Commentary | 8/13/25 | Game #120

strikes. You’re out at the old ball game. Katy Casey saw all the games. Knew the players by their first names. Told the umpire he was wrong all along. Good and strong when the score was just two to two. Casey Casey knew what to do. just to cheer up the boys she knew. She made the gang sing this song. Please take me out to the ball game. Take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and crack a jack. I don’t care if I never get back. Let me root brute for the home team. If they don’t win, it’s a shame. For it’s one, two, three strikes. You’re out at the old ball game. Greetings folks and welcome to live coverage of Orioles baseball where this evening, weather permitting, the Baltimore Orioles will be playing the Seattle Mariners in the second game of a threeame series here at Oriel Park at Camden Yards. Folks, how you doing? Sorry I’m a few minutes late, but uh we’ve got a rain delay. Who knows for how long? So uh late I shall be. I’ve got some breakfast to eat. We’re going to be hanging out here for a little bit. I have a feeling that the, you know, I’m not uh in Baltimore to be able to report uh firsthand what the weather is doing or if it’s turning for the better or for the worse. But I do know that the Mariners are probably not trying to come back to Baltimore again this season. uh they’re going to want to try to squeeze these uh these two games in tonight and tomorrow afternoon. And also uh regarding tomorrow, I don’t know what the weather has in store, but if something’s just coming in tonight, it could linger till tomorrow. I just don’t know what we’re in for, folks. If you got any uh weather information, feel free to pop it into the chat here. How you doing there, chat? Just a handful of people here. Uh but I’m glad you’re here. Uh, we got some baseball tonight and some uh news to talk about, but I think what I want to do more than anything is check out the Delm Marva Shorebirds who are about to play uh the Lynchberg what’s their what’s their logo? What’s their uh mascot or what do you call it? Hillcats. The Hillcats. The Delm Marva Shorebirds are about to take on the Lynchberg Hillcats. And folks, there are several brand new Orioles either picked up in the draft uh before the All-Star break or at the trade deadline just about two weeks ago. Uh several players are making their Orioles debut in this game between Del Marva and Lynchberg. So, I’m interested in following along with that. In fact, I’m going to go ahead and pop this little game day thing onto the screen over here. Whoa. As my microphone just falls out, luckily into my lap and not onto the floor. Uh, yeah, I need a little more slack. That’s the problem. I was known for being a complete slacker and here I am now lacking slack. It’s very ironic. Okay. So, I take this link, pop it in over here, and what do we got right there? Ingame. Put that in. What do we get? That is a giant black box. Okay, there we go. All right, let me see what I can do with this. Standby. We’re gonna look for some alternative programming here because Viva Aloy is about to make his Orioles professional debut. And I’m trying to see if we can get this up on the screen here that you can still see it. Let’s see if this works. And why is it so dark? It’s not this dark where I’m looking. It’s like it’s on night mode. Uh, all right. Can you guys even see that? Well, it says they’re they’re in warm-up. First pitch for the Delm Marva game is supposed to be right about now. Um, I wonder if they’ve got any issues with weather as well. Uh, but yeah, in this ball game, let me bring up the Delm Marva uh starting lineup card for the Shorebirds here. Folks, forgive uh the complete lack of anything resembling professionalism. I’m sure you’ve come to get used to that over time. But uh yeah, we’ve got Vehiva Aloy making his debut. He’s going to DH and lead off for the Shorebirds. Ike Irish, who was the top pick in this most recent draft. I think he went number 19 overall. Is that right? Uh he’s going to actually make a start in right field tonight. Actually, tonight, I think it’s his second game. Uh he played at first base last night. Uh also Cobb High Totower who was part of the Padres’s package uh shortstop uh when we sent Ryan O’Harn and Raone Lauraniano over the Padres’s. He is in the lineup batting fifth. And then you’ve got probably the biggest name to come back our way from the Padres’s trade uh that gave them O’Harn and Lauraniano. And that’s the young pitcher, very large young man, Boston Baitman. He’s pitching in this game tonight. So I want to keep an eye on this. Uh assuming that the weather where this is being played is okay. Bank of the James Stadium. Let’s see. Where is this? This is in Lynchberg. Okay. Lynchber, Virginia. Let’s take a look at Lynchberg weather. I’m showing cloudy without rain. Okay, so they should be getting started there. Oh, they have. Aloy is at the plate right now with a count of one ball, two strikes. All right. So, Viva Aloy and folks, Vahiva, there’s W’s in his name, but I’ve come to realize that these W’s have to be pronounced like V’s. Veha Aloy. I’m trying to refresh this to see if it works. It’s a mess, folks. I still got my breakfast over here. I want to eat that. And now it’s just a giant black screen. Well, that didn’t do me any good. Oh, we got something. What happened? It’s too small for me to even see what the hell we’re looking at. Is this a giant waste of time? Could be. Uh, maybe it makes more sense to do this and then kind of like that a little bit. a little bit. Uh, is it showing? It doesn’t look like it’s showing you live. All right, it’s kind of if you squint, you can kind of see uh you can kind of see what’s going on. Uh, so keep an eye on that, folks. again. Uh, Viva Aloy, Ike Irish, uh, Cobb Mon Cobb High Tower, and, uh, the pitcher Boston Baitman. It’ll be on the mound here in the next half inning. Irish with a base hit. Okay, infield single for Ike Irish, folks. Hey Mike Elias, you know you’ve done well with the Orioles when uh you know we’re sitting here mid August watching the Delm Marva Shorebirds instead. Getting excited for players that I hope will make their debut after you make your departure, sir. No rain or thunder right now, but they won’t even let you go to your seats. What? Oh boy. All right, Charm City chat, how are you guys doing? Let’s see. Uh, everybody’s names are all screwy still. Sorry about that. There is I’ll just call it the way I see it. at football, at india, at George, at Rob, at Edward, at Bam, and uh is that about it? That might be it. Could be it. Anyway, uh I think what I’m going to do at this point is eat my breakfast. Uh it’s still hot. There’s nothing else going on. Uh there’s 40 people chilling. Hey, hit the like button if you don’t mind while you’re here. Get it out of the way. And uh yeah, I wish I had something at least something audio to play. Oh, you know what I could play in the background? I’ll play some old school highlights from the Bird Watcher channel. All right. Old school highlights from the Bird Watcher channel. I’ll be off screen so you don’t have to see me eating. Nobody wants to watch that. But uh let’s see. Oh yeah, when the Orioles couldn’t get on the bow rad. How about a Vance Honeyut inside the park home run call. Let’s see what this was like. This is from spring training. Ball’s head in the air to left center heading toward the gap. A long run and that ball is going to drop in and bounce over the wall and it’s still in play. I thought that ball bounced out of the stadium coming all the way around and scoring. Are you kidding me? Did he just inside the park homer that Vance Honeyut just hit an inside the park home run, folks. I thought that ball went over the wall. Surely Vance didn’t care. He just kept running all the way. Folks, that is awesome. I can’t say bye-bye birdie because it didn’t leave the yard. It’s an inside the park home run. We’re tied at two. Holy cow. This ball’s head in the air to left center. All right, shut up. Heading toward the gap. A long run. And that All right, we heard it the first time. Hey, how about this? Name your favorite Orio player from the past two years. And let me see if I can find a highlight for you of that player. Now, if you’re going to pick Yeramal Heraldo, I’m not going to have anything, but you know. Uh, so yeah, I’m taking requests for highlight picks while I eat. I’m going off camera right now. Uh, there I go. Anybody? Come on. Who do you want to hear? A gunner. How about an old Santandere replay? Anybody in the mood? How about uh how about anything we did good against the Yankees? Does anybody have anything? I’m trying I’m trying to fill some time and play something while I’m eating. Colton Cowser says, “Card crazed.” Okay. Thank you for your participation. Oh, and George says, “Said.” All right. We’ll go in order. We’ll go in order. said. I’m sure I’ve got a great uh catch clip in here. Uh let’s go with all right. This isn’t as easy to look through as I thought. There’s a lot in here. Okay, this was against the San Diego Padres’s last July 28th at Oriel Park at Candom Yards. Let’s see what happens. This is called Mullins does it yet again. Oh, that one skyed into center field and deep. Going back on it and made leaping grab against the wall. Cedric Mullins has done it again. No other center fielder can do what this man does. He covers all the ground. Cedric Mullins has saved the day. What a catch. Don’t tell me this guy doesn’t belong somewhere if not on this team. Look at this catch, folks. Crashing into the 410 ft sign. The deepest part of the yard and he went in. Committed his entire body to make this catch. Cedric Mullins, you’re my hero. All right, Colton Cowser. You know, I think I got the perfect place to start with Cowser going back to when he uh really made his mark with the team. That series out in Boston, that Fenway Siri, this is called Moo in the Mist. Anderson is getting loose for Boston. This one’s hit in the air right field. It’s going back and it’s going to clear the bullpen. Bye bye. Birdie Cowser cannot be stopped folks. Colton Cowser has gone mad cow disease nine to three Orioles. Let’s hear the moves. Bolton Cowser absolutely crushes the baseball deep into the mist in this Boston night. N to3 Orioles. All right, Bradish. I don’t know if I have a Bradish clip. Bradish has been hurt too much. Since I started my channel, I might have called like two Bradish games. I know you guys can hear me chewing. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. But um Lauriano, let me see. I gotta be honest, I I haven’t clipped out highlights like I used to. I guess uh the the way the team has gone. Well, this says Ramon loves a short porch. This could be this could be um Lauriano. This could be Aras. I think it’s a though. Uh yeah, I think our best bet is to the closest we’ll get to a Lauriano clip is Ramon Aras clip. Sorry, but it’s against the Yankees, folks. Back on June 20th of this season, Sagano against Max Freed. This happened full count on Aras. The milkman on deck. Payoff pitch. Swung on. Hit in the air to right. Backing up. Still backing up. And that ball is over the wall. By by birdie. A short porch special in the Bronx has given the Orioles the lead late. Ramon Aras just 337 ft gets the job done. It’s 4 to3 in the eighth inning. Oh, doctor. Full count on a Ras. All right. So, not Lauriano. By the way, if you want a Lauriano highlight, you can probably find one on MLB.com or Twitter today because he hit a two-run homer for the Padres’s in their game earlier. Hey, get this folks. Raone Lauriano still raking. Now for the Padres’s who I guess can go ahead and exercise this player option or their team option or whatever the hell it is for next season. Although get to have a player like him uh for you know peanuts basically. Anyway, uh how about a just a random clip that has nothing to do with a particular player. Sometimes I try to be amusing, folks. Oh, here’s where Iron Mike Tyson sits in on the playbyplay. Let’s Let’s check in with Iron Mike. We got a one two count on Trevor Law knock. That pitch is inside. Come on, blue. That was close enough. Two two count. Kramer kicks and deals. called strike three strike out for Dean Kramer and the Orioles keep the lead two to one. Well, y’all come back now, you hear? Well, y’all come back now, you hear? This guy does impressions of something. Oh, wait. Now I’m Mike Tyson as Chip Chippison or something. Uh last year’s uh last year’s big win, a bacon a bacon highlight. Uh let’s see. Well, I mean, one of my favorite calls is the Mullen’s hit over the head of uh Alex Verdugo. Is this that game? Let’s see. Where the hell is it? Okay, I suck at this. I’m not very good at finding these clips. I guess I could title them a little better. Uh, yeah. I mean, everybody’s doing good for the Brewers. Oh, yeah. What are you going to do? What are you going to do? Hey, here’s me saying uh here’s me giving like a motivational speech or something. We’re going to be fine. I can’t wait. I I you know what? I relish the idea that so many people are going to look at the Orioles as a team that makes the playoffs with no chance. Give me that. Give me that title. Give me that underdog title. All right. Maybe I don’t want to hear this one. Oh no. Uh I’m almost done eating, folks. Thanks for hanging in there. Here. Here’s one called Melanie Toeto toe Newman’s expert insight. What is this? What could this possibly be about? Oh, this one says BW is fed up right now. All right, let’s see what I’m fed up about tonight. But is there a certain point where a concerning stretch start? It’s a postgame interview I can hear. It’s become a concerning season with just how long this has continued for him. Why even ask about Craig Kimbro? Who cares? Kind of how the innings have been going lately where he gets two quick outs and then, you know, a base hit and then a stolen base and and just kind of tough time putting a a clean inning together. So, throwing the ball really well. First two hitters punch outs and then Story kind of a nice piece of hitting there on a fast ball away and then um you know, just didn’t execute after that. Well, that’s a big decision that’s looming for the Orioles because it’s not just does Craig Kimell ultimately make it into the postseason roster. You also factor in Danny Koul and Jacob Greg Kimberly. He got his first two outs, you know, and then Trevor Story good at bat. He got a ball in there and then after that, well, you know, do up here pretty soon. Yeah. What about after that? That’s where all the bad stuff happened. That’s what we’re kind of talking about. But he got the first two outs. Don’t you love the media, folks? Oh, that was spicy. How about this? Says BW shows off the goods. What is that about? How about Jackson Holiday’s first major league home run? How about that? The O2 swung on and hit in the air to right field and deep. If this is fair, this is going to go by by birdie. Jackson Holiday has just hit his first major league home run and it’s a grand salami. Go crazy, Baltimore. The Orioles have made it 8-3. Your boys going crazy. It’s magic. Welcome to the show, Jackson Holiday. Splash it up, baby. Holy cow. A grand slam onto the flag court. My god. Four men drinking from the Homer hose. Ah, the good times. Oh, speaking of good times. Oh, damn. Mountain. This is what it’s all about. Damn. Damn. Damn James. Good times anytime you need a place. Good times anytime you need a friend. Good times anytime you man. Not getting hassled. Not getting hustled. Keeping your head above water. getting every out that you can. Trying to protect the oneun lead. Goo times. Going for a fivegame win streak. Good times. BW is really trying. Good times. Ain’t we lucky we got them. All right, folks. What is this? The Toto joke incident. What is this? Janet, do you want to remove the joke? Should I remove the joke? Over the rainbow. Good song by Toto because Because Wizard of Oz. Janet. It doesn’t even really make sense. Toto didn’t sing the song in the movie. There wasn’t a singing dog in Wizard of Oz last I checked. It doesn’t even really make sense. Uh how’s the Delm Marva game doing guys? We’re in the bottom of the second. Uh so Viva Loy flyed out. Ike Irish with a base hit. Bottom of the first uh with Boston Baitman on the mound. He got the first batter out on called strikes. Struck out the next batter. Excuse me. Uh we’re now in the bottom of the second inning. And excuse me again. No score between Del Marva and Lynchberg. All right. Uh, even though I just started getting the hiccups, going to try to come up on the screen here. Hi. Hi, everybody. How you doing? Uh, I don’t really know what, if anything. Maybe it would make more sense to do this. Let’s do it like that. Let’s cut that crap out and then make this a little larger so people can read it a little better. Put it right about there. Okay. This is me in the corner. All right. Like, how did I sound like Shaggy? Okay, guys. Uh, let me first check on uh the Twitter feed. See if there’s any updates on this uh weather. If anybody is uh on location in the Baltimore area, let me know what you’re seeing and feeling regarding the weather. And I don’t see anybody at mentioning me, so I’m not going to try and read through this whole chat, but if you want to get my attention, that’s the way to do it. We’re probably a couple of minutes away from playing some yachts, folks. Starting to look like a yachtsy night. Uh, the Norfolk Tides are also playing. George says it’s bad. That’s not good. As opposed to good. Norfol and Jacksonville, they’re down in Florida. Uh, no score there. Actually, they’re just getting warmed up. That game has yet to start but is about to. Heavy thunder. Dylan Beavers set to lead it off for the Tides in that one. Maverick Hanley batting second. Basio, who by the way, his birthday today, folks. Sammy Basio, go out and have yourself uh a stiff drink, my friend. you’re 21 years old today. So, Bisayio, if the Orioles are all about service time manipulation and it’s the only thing that’s preventing him from getting called up, which means he’s like three days away from getting called up. Um, it sucks that we couldn’t call him up while he was still 20. I mean, to be able to get a player through your system and up in the bigs at the catcher position by the age of 20, it doesn’t happen that often, folks. I can think of like a just like a couple of guy like Pudge Rodriguez was like one. The list is very short. It’s it’s an achievement in itself for a position like that to make it by the age of 20. And Bisio is not going to get there by 20, but it’ll be within a week or two weeks. Three at the most. Basically 20. I mean, oh great, my chat just disconnected. Fantastic. The PGA Tour is uh in Owings Mills this weekend. Okay. Not really a golf follower, but uh for the local angle. That’s That’s good. I have no idea if I’m even still on the air right now. It just said chat disconnected. Folks, can you hear me? Can you feel me? Near you? All right, I’m back. Okay, so the chat went down for a little bit. We’re off to a great start tonight, folks. We got a team that uh basically couldn’t score in the first game of the series. Uh now we’re sitting here waiting for a game to start. But hey, I guess you have that uh as a silver lining. We’ve scored as many runs in a ring delay as we did last night, right? Could Bisayio possibly be the best hitting and of course possible. Of course. I mean, the only teams that I would say like pump the brakes, I mean, if we were the Reds, I’d be like, well, Johnny Bench might want to have a word with you. If we were the Dodgers/Metss, I don’t know. Take your pick. But Mike Piaza might want to have a word with you. Um, but in terms of the Orioles, I mean, if you’re talking about just hitting and we we look back at Weeders, he didn’t really uh pan out to be the guy we thought in terms of the hitting. Uh, Adley started well, and I think it’s too early to to write him off. Uh, if you’re going back in time, uh, I mean, Chris Hoys is pretty good. Pretty good. Like that 96 team, that lineup, I was looking back at it again, just ridiculous. The lineup. It was like Brady Anderson, Roberto Alamar, Raphael Palro, Bobby Benia, Kyle Rivken Jr., Um BJ Sirhoff, uh Chris Hoys. I mean, there was not Everybody in that lineup had like 20 plus homers. Everybody had an OPS like over 800. Brady had 50 homers that year. We all know why, but uh holy cow. Anyway, Chris Hoys was a pretty good offensive catcher. I mean, he wasn’t elite, but in terms of our history, I’ I’d have to say he belongs somewhere in the conversation until a guy like a Basio or a Richmond sticks around. Mickey Tedleton, not a very long Orioles career, but man oh man, could that guy crush a baseball. He was like my favorite my favorite Orio back in theuh 89 season, the why not season. Froot Loops, Mickey Tedleton. Uh otherwise, you know, guys we’ve had behind the plate more known for their defense, you know, Etcha Baron and and Dempsey, um Bob Melvin, but uh for hitting, yeah, I don’t think there’s really too many guys uh for Bisayio to to top. Probably as stiffest competition is the guy currently on the team right now. And that’s only if Adley can get his act back together again. Yeah, Randy Meyers in the bullpen. Yeah, just the 96 team just Oh, yeah. Eddie M. I forgot about Eddie Murray. I mean, he started the season I think somewhere else, but at some point he came over was added to that lineup. I mean, the lineup was ridiculous. We had like Sirhoff batting eighth with like a 288 average, 23 homers, and like 78 RBI. That was like our eighth hitter. It was nuts. Ka had to bat like sixth during those days. He too many damn good players in there. Uh, right. Are we getting any updates from the official folks? I’d like an update, please. I mean, they could even give us Oh, speaking of unable to give an accurate prediction or estimate in terms of time, uh, Colton Cowser, this came out two hours ago on Rock Kabatokco’s Twitter feed. Colton Cowser and Tyler O’Neal will be out a little longer than hoped. You know what we need to stop using when we start talking about player injuries and timetables and the process needed in order to work their way back into playing shape. You know what word we need to just completely abandon from this moment forward when trying to articulate what’s happening? Hope. Stop it. Stop giving us a projection that is overly optimistic only to tell us when we get near that time, oh, it’s going to be a little longer than that. Sorry, it’s just bad form. Why Why do you do this to us as fans? Why are you constantly either being non-transparent about an injury or if you do give us some kind of a timetable, it’s always this optimistic BS that never lives up? Now you tell me folks if somebody were to tell tell you that like ex player won’t be back for another two months and then it turns out six weeks down the road like a couple of weeks before that twomonth timetable. Surprise uh ex player is now back on a rehab assignment back earlier than expected and is now uh probably going to be back uh in a few days. When has anyone ever felt upset about being told that a injured player was returning sooner than hoped or sooner than expected? Nobody Nobody would ever complain. Hey, no, wait a minute. He’s not supposed to be back for another month. How dare you tell me that he’s coming back now? I made plans to not have him around, right? It makes no sense. If you’re going to make a guess, guess on the side of long out longer than you think, not out best scenario. All you’re doing is setting us up for disappointment. It’s a very simple concept. You know, like when you when you when you make a plan with somebody and you’re like you’re trying to decide on a time to meet, you you don’t uh you know, say to yourself, “Well, if the traffic is perfect and I find a parking spot right on time, I could probably be there by 6:05. So, let me No, just say like 6:20. And then if you get there early, nobody’s nobody’s upset.” I don’t know. NDJ says it’s a business. What’s the business? What’s the business of telling fans that a player is going to be out uh x amount of time and then when that time comes around they go, “Oh, I guess we we were off on our estimate. It’s going to be longer.” How is how again? How is that good for PR? How is that good for the fan base wanting to trust what the team is telling them? No idea how long the delay is, Chilo. Not a clue. But I’ll tell you this, you know, the Mariners, West Coast team. It’s late in the season. I took a look at both teams schedules. There really is only like one off day that both these teams have that they could potentially make this up. Excuse me. The Mariners do have to travel after tomorrow’s game, but it’s not very far. We also travel. We have to travel farther. We have to go to Houston. They’re going up to New York. Uh but on September the 4th, uh both teams have a day off. The Orioles will start a home stand the following day, so they could get back from the road trip the day before. in time for that off day. And then the Mariners will be in the middle of a road trip. They play Tampa, have an off day. They could come up to Baltimore, play, and then they would have the Braves right after that starting September 5th, which I’m sure they would not want to do, to play in Tampa, fly up to Baltimore for one day, and then fly right back down to Atlanta, especially when you consider they’re a team that’s actually contending. uh and we aren’t. So, I got a feeling that no matter what decision is made regarding uh these games, whether they’re postponed, whether they’re flat out just cancelled and then not played unless need be, which sometimes happen, you know, your game after the regular season sort of makeup game if necessary kind of a thing. could be a lot of different things, but I feel like they’re going to decide what to do based on what the needs of the Mariners are more than ours. Again, just because they’re contending their their games matter more than ours. It’s It’s sad to say, but that’s the truth. Hey, Derek with a super chat. Thanks for doing what you do. Hit the like button. Okay, I’ll hit the like button on your super chat. Thank you, Derek. Uh, right. Message for you, son. BW, I have a question for you. I’m never going to get anybody to use the at mention, am I? It’s never going to work. Uh, yes. When do you think Dylan Beavers gets called up to the team? I think we’ll see him on Monday in Boston. That’s my guess. The earliest he would come would be one or two games earlier in Houston this weekend. Uh the latest he would be called up would probably be September 1st. Um, the Orioles could wait a few extra days just to make it not look so obvious that everything was done for service time manipulation, but we all know. But yeah, um, I’m thinking Boston Monday. Uh, that’s where we start our road trip. He can travel with us up to Boston. Uh, it’s a place where a lot of Orioles have either made their debuts or sort of broken it. We I just talked about this last night and we just listened to a couple of highlights uh to drive this uh point home which is uh a lot of Orioles have sort of uh made their mark with the team debuting or or at least you know popping off while playing up at Fenway. Uh Jackson Holiday made his major league debut at Fenway, although he was struggling up there, remember with his dad in the crowd and everything. Uh Colton Cowser early last season, that first road trip out to Fenway, that’s when he went crazy. He wound up winning player of the week and had himself a great rookie season. Came up just short of rookie of the year. Uh Adley Rutman after his rookie campaign the following season his first opening day opening day against Boston at Fenway five hits five for five for Adley. So there is some uh recent history several examples of Orioles whether debuting or just kind of very very early you know having success at Fenway. So for me, Dylan Beavers, you’re the next guy on Monday. Now, I don’t know if Basia will be caught up as well. I think they’re going to wait a little bit longer on him. I think they are. We’ll see. For one thing, they have Maverick Hanley. He’s probably going to be ready, if they want to use him, uh, until September 1st. And then we have an extra roster spot. that could be a time for Bisayio’s call up. And then the other thing, um, again, um, it’s a different position and you you want to see, uh, even though I think, you know, with the team at this point, I don’t think it’s going to hurt Bio too much to to break in with the big club. Uh, there’s not going to be a whole lot of pressure. We’re not really playing for any significant uh achievement, but let let’s go ahead and get that seasoning in up here with the big club. That way going into next year, uh he can be in a better position uh to help the team next year. Chances of a double header being played tomorrow. I mean, there’s a chance card, but I don’t think they want to do it unless they absolutely have to because again, it’s it’s a travel day for both teams. Um, the whole idea of playing these afternoon games midweek is to allow these teams the time it takes to travel and give them the chance to, you know, take a breath before playing in the new city. But I think they’re going to try to squeeze this game if there’s a window to get it in. If they can only get five, I could totally see a situation where it’s a five ining game and they call it uh early. Uh it looks like Chesapeake got on the board. Let’s see what happened here, folks. There’s so many teams to follow. The Chesapeake Bay Socks. What’s going on with them? I’m I’m following three different minor league affiliates for the Orioles. Enrique Bradfield Jr. is uh leading off for the Bay Socks in their lineup tonight. He had an opposite field home run last night, by the way. So, props to Enrique Oppo Oppo Taco for Bradfield. I mean, he’s not built like a guy you would think that could hit an opposite field home run, but he did last night. There’s a there’s a clip of it up if we go to the uh Bay Socks Twitter feed. Zack Fruit is on the mound and he Wow. Two innings, five walks, two hits, a wild pitch and somehow only gave up two earned runs. Wow. Must have left the bases loaded twice. All right. Oh, I got something I want to talk about here. Here is a completely off-topic thing. Where am I? Am I on the air? Excuse me. I’ve got uh Is this done? This is done, folks. I don’t know about you, but I uh Let’s get this a little bit out of the way. Let’s just kind of Yeah, this is Let’s just Let’s just tuck that over to the corner. How you doing, everybody? Um I’m a huge fan of really really really bad movies. The kinds of movies that are so incompetently made uh are are just com they just make you How did How did this movie ever get into the development? There’s so much of a process in movie making. so many people are involved uh so many steps uh until your final product and then so you know when you’re talking about a movie that is coming out of a major production studio uh with a a real budget and features like actors you’ve heard of and what have you, you expect a certain standard of quality of movie. Even if the story is lame, even if the acting is a little uninspired, even if the directing is a little, you know, just kind of stale and unimaginative, uh, it might be just a bad movie, but it’s at least competently made, right? You can at least uh suspend your disbelief and immerse yourself, attempt to into into the movie. That’s the whole point. Visual storytelling. All right. People love movies. Well, there’s a movie that came out on Amazon Prime, I guess, about two weeks ago now that since it has come out, people can’t stop talking about it. And I finally had a chance to check it out myself only uh a day or two ago. Uh yeah, the off day I had and I’m talking about does anybody know uh they have made War of the Worlds. War of the Worlds, the HG Wells famous uh nolla uh that was then uh converted into a radio program that Orson Wells uh famously uh struck fear into many listeners probably about oh I don’t know 90 years ago now. And uh yeah uh they even made a Tom Cruz Spielberg joint uh probably about 20 years ago now. War of the Worlds. Uh people know this story, right? Aliens come down. They basically uh take over the human race, harvest them. Uh it’s one of those total doom, no way to win kind of uh movies. Well, they’ve made another one. Yes, Michael. Starring Ice Cube. And folks, I got to tell you, I would not spend 3 minutes just building up to this if this movie wasn’t so bad that it just might be worth your attention. This War of the Worlds 2025 starring Ice Cube movie, I mean, just to use the word movie is already questionable. Uh, Uh, pick something. Pick any aspect of making a movie, editing, uh, script, screenwriting, uh, directing, uh, uh, sound design, uh, cinematography, uh, art direction, just pick anything. All of it is uh uninspired uh cheap half-ass uh this movie was made during uh the height of COVID apparently. Uh so it would explain why it’s one of these sort of this is where they went wrong. It’s a bottle movie. If you’re familiar with the concept of a bottle movie, it’s it’s it’s a kind of film that, you know, a lot of, if not all of the action of the movie takes place in one location. Uh, you’ve kind of got your main core of actors in within that physical space playing out an entire movie. Like a very famous example of that would be 12 Angry Men. uh considered by many one of the best films ever made. Uh Sydney Lamett 1956 I think Peter Fonda uh or I’m sorry Henry Fonda and uh yeah that’s a bottle movie. Uh Breakfast Club would be a bottle movie, right? Everybody’s sitting in on detention for an hour and 40 minutes or whatever it is. Uh Reservoir Dogs, Quinton Tarantino’s first movie. Another perfect example of a bottle movie where a low budget by writing a story that takes place mo mainly in one location and the uh the the drama of the movie is really about the interaction between the characters and trying to figure out who’s the rat and all that stuff. Perfect bottle movie. This War of the Worlds is a bottle movie in the way that it all takes place at with Ice Cube sitting at his desk looking at his computer, but it’s supposed to also be like this stunning blockbuster summer action-packed alien invasion. Stuff’s blowing up everywhere. High techch gadgetry used to track things. And it is just so lame like the ambition of this movie based on the uh uh or when you when you compare it to the budget and and then and the and the lack of Ice Cube. You’ve never seen somebody phone it in. There are lines Ice Cube delivers in this movie where he’s not talking on camera where you know he is just literally sitting with the script in front of him just reading it like he’s been reading it for the first time. He sounds like he’s reading a book report in sixth grade in front of the class. It is mindboggling. And again, like you’re spending most of the time just with this closeup of Ice Cube’s face and is reacting to things that you know he’s not actually seeing. Everybody involved in this movie. Nobody’s actually interacting with anybody again because it was shot in CO. So he’s sitting here talking to people who are talking like on a FaceTime uh thing and and and also like all this stuff is happening in real time. So the movie starts, there’s no invasion. the invasion starts and within like 20 seconds there’s a reporter giving like a sideline report about everything going on with the like who had time to put this to it’s it’s such a mess and makes no sense. It’s lazy. Oh, I love it. And Ice Cube is so bad. Like man, I grew up with this dude in NWA. This guy was hardcore. He did not want to mess with Ice Cube. Now it’s been 20 years since he did like what was that thing with like that awful like family movie? Where in the world are We Going or something. He’s done a lot of junk, you know, for a long time. I’m not saying Ice Cube has got this great Yeah. Are we there yet? Yeah. I mean, once I saw an ad for Ice Cube and are we there yet? Like, I’m like, “All right, you’ve lost your your your uh you know, your your your card. You lost that Compton card that you used to carry, right?” Like, how am I supposed to take any of your lyrics seriously after you’ve made Are We There Yet, right? Like, you you done sold out. But man, this movie makes Are We There Yet look like like he’s uh you know, like completely uh immersing himself into some like crazy role that might get him an Oscar. The War of the Worlds, it’s so bad. I’m sorry. I’m not doing a good job explaining it. It’s just bad. I I urge you guys to go out there and at least look on YouTube and just look up War of the World’s 25 uh reviews or reactions and just the entire internet. Every generation of of movie goer that we’re we’re all sharing this same experience of enjoying how bad this movie is. We’ve got a playbyplay with JJ Raid going on folks while we sit in a rain delay for a game that has yet to start. But let me say this. If there are people like David Guansen here, hello David. Uh hello PJC. I can tell you are a magic member. I’m looking at the binoculars. There’s Shante. Hey folks, if you’re here, please subscribe to the channel. Uh, I don’t know if you’d noticed, but this oral season is not exactly gone the way we had hoped, and it has taken a big hit to the channel in terms of turnout and projecting certain numbers like subscribers. So, I don’t mean to sound desperate, but the fact is I am. Please consider, if you’re here right now, subscribing to this here channel. And uh yeah, it’d really mean a lot to me if you did. Rob says it’s a light. Rob says he’s about to leave. Well, wait a minute, Rob, if you’re already there, don’t go. Don’t goooo. That’s bad. Let me check back in on these other games here. Yeah. So, right now, uh, being the mad Orio fan that I am, I’m now watching our minor league affiliates and what they’re doing in their respective games. Bea Aloy in his second atbat fly out to center field. Ike Irish in his second at bat fly out to left. Hey, Annie’s here with a new Magic members membership. Wow, I have got Okay, a little bit of heartburn, folks. And Jack Dwight with a super chat as well. I need a faster chin. I’m not quite sure what that means. Like to get out of the way of a pitch up and in like some chin music. I need a faster chin. I’ll I’ll see what I can do. Annie, thanks for the magic membership. Message for you, son. Message for you, son. That one goes out to Skully Skolyft FTW. Actually, regarding these free magic memberships, folks, I need to ask if you’ve received one before, and it’s okay if you did and then decided, well, I don’t want to renew this or I don’t want to continue uh, you know, this was a gift. I’m not trying to pay for this. Totally understandable. I just don’t know being on this side how that all works. What I’m what I’m what I’m trying to drive at is I’m concerned that by giving out Magic memberships to random people that those random people who may not be here that often or at all get some kind of alert or email saying that they’ve gotten this magic membership and then what does does that and again if you have experienced this this I want to get a response from you. Does that require you to then have to do something in order to cancel or would it start to renew some? I I just don’t want anybody feeling like it’s a gimmick to like trap people into monthly paying out for these memberships once they’ve had like a free uh month or whatever. Uh I’m hoping that if you’re given a free one, you’re not really signing up for anything. So once it expires, you’re not obligated to cancel something or anything, right? No shot. You have to quit it yourself. No shot. What do you mean by no shot? Oh, no shot. Oh, I see. I thought those are two different. I gotcha. So, automatically expire. So, okay. So, that’s all I’m worried about. I did not want to. I was worried because sometimes I would see a night where a lot of Magic memberships would go out. No, I I know what it means by Yeah, I got you, Chupa. I thought these were too I thought there was a missing uh punctuation mark that made it like I just I got you. Anyway, I as you could probably understand, I was concerned that if it was like that where people were being told, well, you know, if you don’t cancel, it’s going to automatically do this or something. And then they’re like, you know what, that’s really sleazy. I don’t like that. And now I’m going to unsubscribe to your channel. So, I’m just worried that these free magic memberships might cause some people to do the opposite thing you want, which is to say, “Screw this. I’m just severing ties with this channel entirely.” Uh, but if you’re telling me nobody has to worry about getting autocharged or anything like that, then then I suppose. But maybe just the courtesy email that gets sent out. Hey, you just got a free membership. Maybe that rubs some people the wrong way. Hey, I don’t want to get some email. I didn’t ask for this. I don’t know. It’s all paranoia, folks. Uh, right. What about the tarp? The tarp is winning. Oh, Froggy says, “For me, YouTube sends an email letting me know that I got a gifted membership. The membership ends at the end of 30 days. You need to opt in to renew.” Okay, that’s good to hear. That’s good to hear. Okay. So, nobody should feel like something sinister is going on with the free memberships, right? They’re free and you’re not like cuz you know how a lot of these companies are. Oh, here’s something for free. All you got to do is fill out this card. Next thing you know, you’re locked into something or you’re constantly getting uh inundated with emails and and whatnot. Yeah, I just didn’t want Well, I wanted to make sure none of that was the case. So, okay. Uh where are we at? It is now 7:32 p.m. East Coast. It might be time for some yachts, guys. Hey, Delm Marva’s up two zip. How did we get there? How do we get there? A double steel. We had a double steel for Del Marva that involved Cobb High Tower stealing home, folks. How about that? Cobb High Tower, one of the uh position play, probably in in terms of position players, probably the biggest name we got back or at least in terms of prospect value uh from all those deadline uh deals back on the last day of July. Um, obviously if you were following any of the activity that day, the vast majority of players that we we brought in were pitchers, but we did bring in some position players. Cobb High Tower, I think of all the position players we traded in has got the highest pro prospect tag. And here he is already starting to do some interesting things. Stealing a double steel and stealing home. So, that’s a nice little something. And then what’s uh Boston Baitman doing on the mound? Very interested in Baitman. Well, he’s giving up a home run. No, that’s that’s not him. That’s Where the hell am I? Where’s the regular box score for this? There we go. Uh Baitman has gone four innings, has not given up a run, three hits and two walks, four strikeouts. So that’s a buck and a quarter whip, a zero erra, and a K per inning on the day for Boston Baitman. I guess this is not his first appearance. Uh he has an erra already, but it’s good. 1.29. 53 pitches, 30 for strikes. Once again, Boston Baitman. Oh, great. Now my back button is not working again. There we go. What are the uh This dude is 6 foot8 240 68. this kid and uh he won’t be 20 until uh next month. He’s a teenager at 68 right now pitching for Delm Marva. All right. Baitman is a righty I believe. It just had his Yeah. Well, let me check. Let me be sure. We did draft. We took a lefty. No, he’s a lefty. He is a I thought I just saw it. Yeah, he’s a lefty. Nice. Yeah, Rod, I mentioned it not too long ago. two-run homer from Lauriano for the Padres’s today. Is this the new Kyle Sters watch? Have we moved on from Sters? Now we’re just monitoring Ortiz because the Brewers can’t stop winning and Lauriano because we should never have traded him. We We just look at our outfield and he wasn’t an expensive player and we had a way to bring him back for next year. But look at our minor league system now, BW. It’s all been upgraded. That’s great. But I’m not interested in in double A titles or single A titles. I’m interested in the big prize. Uh yeah, I’m not trying to, you know, make our farm better at the expense of the per, you know, the the main team. Uh whatever. Anyway, yeah, I’m Yeah, of all the guys now, it seems like the Padres’s probably really uh it seemed like a situation where the Padres’s weren’t going to deal with the O’s unless the O’s were like, “Well, we want to move O’Harn as well.” I don’t know if Ryan O’Harn was getting a whole lot of offers out there, guys. I’m not sure. Lauriana was definitely the more attractive of the two, even though O’Harn had earned that All-Star nod. Um, so it could be a situation where the Orioles wanted to get back a a package of prospects. uh or the Padres’s, you know, they wanted Lauraniano, but not necessarily O’Harn, but the Orioles were like, “Well, if you want Lauriano, you’re going to have to take O’Harn, too. I don’t know. It feels like something.” How is O’Harn doing? Oh, I’m not Yeah. argue. I’m not arguing the Padres’s didn’t need who they went out and got. Yeah. I mean, they they did what they needed to do. Um uh yeah, that’s I don’t think you’re uh I don’t think you’re uh causing any uh controversy with that statement. I think most uh Baltimore sports fans are already looking at the NFL from uh about two weeks ago on forward. I I can’t blame them, but boy, it does hurt my channel. Uh all right, let’s take a look around. Let’s take a look around. Hey, there’s Oh, we’ve got a start time. 8:15. Here we go. So, it’s 7:39. That is 35 minutes. 35 minutes, which means I got time to play a little bit of yatsi. Who’s ready? Oh, by the way, Chesapeake just put some runs up. Bradfield, Norfolk haven’t done anything the first two innings. Beavers, Hanley, and Basia all struck out in the first inning. Ouch. All right, folks. I’m over at the Yatsi multiplayer waiting room waiting for you. Do you want to play BW? Who is this guy? CB Hogi, I don’t know you. Waiting for somebody who I could recognize to challenge me. Los Polio. I don’t know. Los Polio. I don’t know. No loss. So, uh, what did I come over here for? They canceled. Who are you? Well, I didn’t mean to accept this. I didn’t mean to accept this. All right. Well, might as well uh, you know, get a practice game out of the way anyway. Hey, folks. Got everything I need over here. Oh, look at that. That was sick. I’m watching a fly on my TV screen and he keeps on climbing where the grass is because he thinks it’s outside. Ain’t nothing worse than a dumb fly. I hope the slider’s got enough juice. I don’t feel like getting up. Well, I’ve already got my straights. That sucked. Folks, if you want to be the next to take on BW in a game of yatsi, stand by. He met a strange. Oh, look at this awful roll. What an awful, awful roll. Oh boy. I’m just I’m telling you folks, you got to at least take a peek at that War of the Worlds movie with Ice Cube. It is so so bad. There there’s lines that he reads that are it’s it’s precious how bad it is. Uh oh. Four sixes. I’m in a I’m in a world of pain right now. I am in a world of pain. Oh, that was a nice little change up. I still need four of a kind up top somewhere else. A gambling site for Yatsi. I hope not. People gamble on everything though. Uh, damn it. All right. You You’re not getting yi. I’m not getting a yachts. You uh What do you got? Body cam shows Powerball winner being arrested a day after collecting $167 million prize. What were they arrested for? Like they had a prior they were like they had a warrant out. Surely they wouldn’t be dumb enough to commit a crime after having just won that much money. I would be uh as careful as possible. Don’t get a large straight. Damn it. Damn you. Damn you dirty apes. What’s horrible? Ah crap. What do they get arrested for? For kicking an officer in the face during a fight while he was collecting his money? Or did this happened way before? You cannot convince me somebody on the day he’s about to collect hundreds of millions of dollars. Uh wait I got 40 50 56 57. Yeah three I’ll take bird in the hand and all. Uh I got to look up the story. This sounds pretty insane. I thought I saw a chilo here a little bit ago. No, no cheeo challenge. Oh, you can have that three of a kind. You can have that. Oh, there’s those fives right back. Give me one more. There you go. Now we’re cooking with gas. All right. 30 31. That’s just one two. One two for upper bonus. And BW is going to win this mofo. Give me a two. Give me a two. There it is. I only get the one. I only needed the one. You lose, pal. I think. Yep. You’re done. I beat you by five points. BW does it again, folks. Comes from USA Today. Power Ball winner. Power Ball winner arrested. The day after winning. The day after winning. Oh, he’s in X Con. I never would have guessed. Are you kidding me? Oh, I never would have. No, this does not appear to be the type of guy to me to be the sort to win a giant 167 million. There he is on the ground. Where the Where are they? kind of weird place are they? Oh, they’re Oh, it’s Florida, folks. Who would have guessed Florida? Never in a million years. Never. Look at this. Save your effing sorry for later. He rode the lightning and got taken down. Oh, zip it. Zip it. All right. That’s interesting. All right. Do I get a challenger? There only maybe time for one or two more games of old BW here. Anybody in here, folks? You just go to Google, type in Yatsi, like the first thing that pops up, a free game. Type in a screen name and you’re in. Takes just a few sec. I want to play a fellow bird watcher out there. Nobody wants to challenge. I am serious. George and don’t call me Shirley. All right. Well, fine. All right. Dennis wants to play. Hey, Dennis. You have a system. Always Sunny reference. What’s the deal? This thing’s stuck. It’s not starting. Oh, I get it. to sex like not instead of short for seconds. I see what you did there. Uh well, that game didn’t pan out. Barbara, come on. You gray-haired old lady. What do you got? Bring it, Barb. Watch me cook. I’m cooking. 52 people are chilling. Hey, since uh there’s nothing going on right now or the uh Oh, never mind. The likes are bigger than the room. 75 likes already. That’s That’s quite amazing. Damn it. The last thing I need is threes. And now you’re going to give me this. Ah, you know what? Oh, come on. Really? Get bent. Oh, that makes me upset. What kind of roll was that? Oh, that makes me mad. That is a deuce seven off suit kind of a hand if I ever saw one. Yeah, go after the ones. They’re coming to get you, Barbara. Oh, all right. Barbara. Oh no, box cars everywhere. I’m in trouble. I’ve already used my chance, so I’m going for twos. A little life hack. Uh yeah, game will start Travis quarter after the hour. So about uh 24 minutes first pitch in about 10 minutes I’ll start doing pregame stuff. Okay. Who would you say is the best player on the Orioles right now? I mean it’s Gunner and then I guess Trevor Rogers. Gunner’s been doing pretty good now. Last 35 games, I think the sample size is uh his OPS in the last 35 games is over 900 and he’s driven in 25 runs in those 35 games. So last 35 games, if that was, you know, what he was doing all season, then his numbers would look a lot more like they did last year. Oh, don’t sleep on Barbara, right? Yeah, Chilo. Uh, if you want in, it better be the next game because I think I’ve only got time for one more, man. So, you better be on standby after I dispose of Barbara here. I’m coming to get you, Barbara. Actually, I’m I’m in trouble here. I haven’t gotten any of the more important. Oh no. So she’s got upper bonus on lock down. Really should have put that in four kind. Really should have. But I’m not going to tell her. I ain’t telling her that cuz I mean you’ve already got more than you need in the upper bonus. Oh, don’t get large straight. Okay. If they get a large straight or a yatsi, it is over. Ah, two fives, but I got to go for straights. Give me that two. Damn it. Come on. Come on now. And this ain’t over yet. Oh, no. Four. Four. Four. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Another four. Just roll it. Why are you keeping the five? Why did you keep the five? So annoying. Well, in case I don’t get three of a kind, four of a kind, then I Oh, look at this awful roll. At this point, now I have to go like this and just pray. I’m screwed. I’m screwed. I’m going to lose. Chilo, you ready? I’m about to get screwed. Barb is cooking me right now. All those threes are unnecessary. already had upper bonus. H I have to go now. Now, now I’ll get a yatsi. I knew it. I knew it. I knew it. Oh god. Ah. One turn after zeroing out a yatsi, I roll a yatsi. You know, you know what are you going to do with that? Keep a six. put the two, three, four back and he could have gone for a large trade. That see I’m losing to somebody who’s doesn’t know what they’re doing. That’s what makes it worse. All right. Well, I need the sixes. I have to take that. I have to take that there. Yeah, I guess this game’s kind of going like the Orioles season. Go for those twos. Come. What? You’re going to keep a five. Why would you keep a What are you doing? You don’t even know what you’re doing, do you? Just put a zero in the AI. Move on. Of course, I don’t get a five. Ah, this sucks. Oh, this sucks. I had to take some points there. I I I that was probably a mistake. They don’t have a large straight. If they if they if I can get up a bonus with three fives and they don’t get a large straight, I got this game. One five. I need two more. I’m screwed. I’m screwed. All right. It’s over. It’s over. All right, Chilo, you ready? Oh, hurry up, Barbara. Keep the two. Hurry up. Oh my god. She gets it anyway. You don’t even know what you’re doing. Oh, there’s nothing worse than going like to a casino and sitting at a table with somebody that you know they don’t know what they’re doing and they win and you lose. All right, Chilo. Where are There’s Chile. Nice. Nice avatar, bud. You trying to go for the BW look there? Got like a dark brown hair, some glasses, white guy. Oh, you better you better switch it up to a straight, man. You better switch it up to a straight. There you go. Oh, come on. Boo. Boo. Boo. you cheater. And look at this. Look at this nonsense. Was all set to keep the twos. And then uh trades it back in. Gets the large straight. I tell you what, boo. I’m not going for ones. What do I look like? Do I look like somebody waste time going for ones when I can get four fours like this? Yeah, take your fours. Try and get four like I did. Oh, come on. Really? Large straight yatsi and three sixes. Those are your first three rolls. 108 points. Three rolls. Oh, come on. I need that. I need that. Come on. Oh, snap. Uhoh. Uhoh. What’s going on, Chilo? Chilo was not expecting that. Oh, snap. Just go ahead and get a full house out the way. Why not? Chilo’s starting to sweat. You can have that. You can lull yourself into a false sense of security. Why did you put that in three of a kind? I have to know. I have to know. Can you only sat be satisfied with four threes over here? That was a questionable move. That was questionable. That was genius. Now Chilo keeps those twos and gets a cheap full house. Are you kidding me? Oh boy. Well, all right. I love the pause. Chilo has to check. Do I have a full house? Oh, I do. All right. Threes. Threes. I’m plus four up top, which means I can miss two ones and a two. Two twos and a one and I’m good. I just need five points up top. But for now, we’re going to go for three of a kind. Okay, we’re going to change it on the fly. We’ll take that. Still need two twos. Uhoh. Four sixes. Four sixes. Chilo. Why are you keeping the three? What are you doing? What in the world was that? Okay. Whatever that was. All right. Who am I to who am I to judge? 15 minutes till first pitch, folks. If you get four of a kind with fours, I’m done with you. I’m done with you. Yeah. Yeah. Put that in chance. All right, bud. It’s time to go for the biggin. It’s time to go for the biggin. Give me that two. Come on, man. Don’t do me like that. Don’t do me like that. What you going to do, Chilo? You don’t really need any of those. You going to try to go for four of a kind? Oh, you’re Oh, gonna keep a three. All right. Now what? Now what? Oh, that is going to make you miss upper bonus, my friend. All I need are two twos. Why can’t I get a damn two? Oh my god, look at these rolls. All right, that’ll work. The walls are closing in. Chilo, you’re going to need a lot more than one one to get up a bonus, my friend. That ain’t going to cut the mustard. Oops. Two twos, man. I just want two freaking twos. You can’t give me two twos. Fine. I’ll wait one more turn. Oh, Chileo, this is this is getting sad. If there see how easy it is to get two twos. Give me two. Give me two two. Give me two. Thank you. All right, I win. Last roll. Holy cow. That was It took six rolls to get the first two. Booya. He’s done it again, folks. He’s done it again. Do you believe in me now? Why did Chileo leave the room so fast? All right. Good game, Chile. Good game. I’m the best. The sun will come out tomorrow and bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow. All right. Hey, Aloy’s got his first RBI of the day. Cobb High Totower’s got Oh, yeah. He’s got that uh steel of home. Baitman Boston Baitman may made an error on a pickoff attempt. Uh Aloy Baitman, four and a third inning, excuse me, four and a third innings did not give up an earned run. One run, but it was unearned. Five strikeouts scattered six hits. Boston Baitman’s early erra or the Orioles Delm Marva affiliate is just 1.23. That sounds good. Ike Irish one for two with a walk. Okay, let’s get all that out of the way now. Let’s get down to tonight’s ball game. Hey, there’s a shot from five minutes ago. The skies are clearing. There’s a rainbow coming out of the clouds right over the warehouse. If you’re looking from the third base side toward the warehouse, you can see a streak of rainbow. It’s almost starting to look like a triple rainbow. Oh my god. Oh my god. All right. 8:15 first start. Let’s get this game up. Starting pitchers tonight for your Baltimore Orioles, folks. The man who has made 2025 somewhat interesting, Trevor Rogers. This dude has been so good. Honestly, wins his bobblehead day. Uh Rogers is going to be on the mound to face Logan Gilbert. Another very very solid right-handed pitcher for the Mariners. He’s got a 3.35 ERA. Rogers rocking a 1.44 ERA. Uh current time uh current uh temperature at the ballpark right now 79°. So if the rain is finished and the temperature 79 that sounds like a nice that sounds like nice weather for a ball game. Starting lineup for the Mariners leading off and playing left field Randy Rosarena. Cal Raleigh will bat second and do the catching. Julio Rodriguez is in center field hitting third. Ahaneo Suarez, third baseman, batting cleanup. Josh Naylor will hit fifth against the lefty Rogers. He’ll play first base. Mitch Garver will DH and bat sixth. Jorge Palano at second base hitting seventh. JP Crawford, the shorts stop, will bat eighth. And finally, utility player Dylan Moore will take right field duties tonight and bat ninth. For the Orioles, Jackson Holiday once again leads off and plays second. Jordan Westber plays third and bats second. Gunner will play short and bat third. Rutman doing the catching and the cleanup hitter Ryan Mount Castle will DH and bat fifth. Uh since the return of Mount Castle, folks, those have been the one through five spots in the lineup. The only thing that might be slightly different is Rutman on a day where he needs rest, might DH instead of catch. And on another given day, Mount Castle might play first instead of DH like he’s doing tonight. Uh but one through five, Holiday, Westber, Gunnar, Rutman, Mount Castle, that seems to be set. uh for the remainder of the season. Ryan Nota will get a start in right field. He’ll hit sixth. Kobe Mayo will bat seventh and play at first base. Daniel Johnson is going to get his first start as an oral. He got his first appearance in the game last night as a pinch runner. He’s in center field batting eighth. and Dylan Carlson who uh finally got off the Schneider with a base hit last night. He will bat ninth and play in left field. All right, home plate umpire tonight is Jansen Viscanti. Austin Jones at first, Malachi Moore at second. Mike Mcclinsky is at third. I wonder when we’ll get our first look at the Lady Empire. I think her name is Jen Pawal. Pawal. P A W O L. I I I have to admit I was curious. I took a look at her umpire scorecard for her first game behind the plate and I’m happy to announce that she is just as inaccurate as any other dude out there. So, I just love equality folks when we all come to realize that we’re all as talented or as uh not talented depending on what the thing is. Uh it’s great. I’m I’m really happy to have uh that barrier broken because now again folks, I’m all about equal opportunity when it comes to offending people, right? I’m an equal opportunity offender. And you know how I like to offend the umps, so this will be great. All right. Uh why do they close the left field upper deck? Uh if normally they do uh for games they expect attendance to be below a certain level. If they don’t sell any tickets out there, they just close the whole area down. That way they don’t have to open up the concession stands over there. They don’t have to have any employee or staff of the ballpark security whatever. It’s It’s just a way to cut down costs across the board to do that. We don’t We probably won’t have many games left this season where the left field uh upper deck is going to have people sitting there much. All right, so five minutes away from first pitch, I’m told. Let’s see if I can get this game up. Excuse me, man. I’m I drank this stuff. It’s supposed to settle my stomach, but I am having acid reflux issues this morning. Okay, it still says event is in a weather delay. I’ve got it muted, but it’s on my screen. Okay. All right. Coming back over here. Hi. How you doing? Let’s just get this up on the screen now. I’m over here. Doing a little bit of work here, folks. Stand by. going to have to readjust some things here. Whoa. What happened there? Hey, now. All right, that should do the trick. And make that larger. Right about there. And voila. All right. Okay. Let me bring up the sub count. See what we’re looking like at the start tonight. I think we might only be We’re five away from making that counter flip to 3220. 3215 is the current subscriber count. Trying to get to 3220, folks. Although I don’t imagine many people here right now. Tell you this, I might have to start doing more rain delays. Over a thousand views on this stream so far for a game that has yet to start and I’ve already been on the air for nearly two hours. No. No. All right, I think. All right, here’s what I need to do. I need to utilize the next few minutes by getting up, walking around, maybe having a lucky out on my balcony here. watch the sunrise and uh yeah, just move around a bit cuz it’s already been 2 hours sitting here and it’s going to be another three probably once we get going. Let me do my body a favor and walk around a little bit, folks. I’ll be back shortly. I won’t miss the first pitch. I promise. All right, fantastic. Be back in a little bit. Try to play something in the meantime. Little something something magic or magic. Magic, magic, Good. Good morning. All right, folks. Trevor Rogers just threw his final warm-up pitch. We are getting ready finally for baseball game two of a three-game series with the Orioles and the Mariners. The Mariners won last night. Wasn’t it like one to nothing? Oh, it was so bad. Yeah, one- nothing win last night. Mariners scored a run in the top of the first and nothing happened for the rest of the night. Could we be in for something a little more enjoyable tonight? Let’s hope so. Trevor Rogers is on the mound and he goes into his first delivery and Rosa Raina fouls it back. Fast ball. We are underway. Thank you folks for hanging out with me during the rain delay. 01 pitch swinging a miss. A change up low and away chased by Rosena. He’s hitting 250 on the season. O2 is hit softly to third. Westber Bearham play over to first in time. How about that folks? A web gem to begin the night. A Rosa Raino with a swinging soft grounder almost like a bunt down the third baseline. Westber has to charge and bare hand and he gets it to first to beat a Rosarena. One down in the ball game on the reflexes. Here is Cal Raleigh batting right-handed against the lefty Rogers. Raleigh putting up historic power numbers this season. First pitch swinging here though. Pops it up on the infield. Kobe Mayo straddling the foul line. Makes the catch. Four pitches, two outs. And folks, if the batters are going to make quick outs, the umpires are probably also going to have a pretty big strike zone as they want to get this game going after the that delay and a day game tomorrow. Julio Rodriguez check swing on the first pitch. They appeal. He didn’t go. 256 average for Julio. 23 homers, 65 driven in. Here’s a chopper to second. Big bounce for Holiday. He’s got an easy play to first as Rodriguez just kind of trots down the first. Trevor Rogers with a quick easy first inning. We go to the bottom half. Mariners nothing and the Orioles are coming up. All right, folks. Trevor Rogers. This is great ice team. Now, I’ve got one thing to say to this Orioles offense tonight. One thing. Annie up and kick in like men. Like men. You hear me? Annie up and kick in like men. Like men. just in case. Listen close. Annie up and kick in like men. Like men. All right. Offense. Those bats you’re holding in your hands when you go up to swing them, hit the baseball with them. Get on the base. Move around the base. You sound like it’s my dick in a box. Step one, open the box. Step two, cut a hole in the box. All right, there’s a Oh, never mind. I’m watching a highlight package. I thought we had some kind of goose on the on the on the field. All right, here we go. Jackson Holiday, folks. I sound as ridiculous. I’ve got distractions going on here. Oh, I’m not even on the camera. All right, I’m here. Jackson Holiday against Logan Gilbert, folks. Gilbert 16 starts 335 erra and a whip under one for a starter. A sub one whip is outstanding. Holiday first pitch swinging left center field relatively deep but it’s going to be caught out there in the alleyway by Julio Rodriguez. A Rosarena was there to back him up. Holiday goes opposite field toward that bullpen area but comes up about 10 ft short. Splitfingered from Logan Gilbert is virtually unhitable. Opponents are hitting 102 off of him on that pitch. Jordan Westber takes a fast ball top of the zone for a strike. Westy’s batting 262. 14 homers, 29 driven in. Well, West is that way. We got any Westber emojis in the chat, folks? Do we even have any Magic members here? Pitch outside. One ball, one strike. Wow. There is some information. And Kevin Brown is letting the audience know that I never even knew. That makes Logan Gilbert all the more difficult to figure out. Gilbert has got quite the wingspan. By the time the ball leaves his hand, he is 7 and 1/2 ft closer to home plate than where his foot is on the rubber. Here’s a soft ground at a first and a diving a slide at first by Westber to try to sneak underneath the tag of Naylor, but Naylor able to still get the tag down. Westber will be retired on a ground ball and tagged out going to first by Naylor. So yeah, seven and a half ft. So basically by the time that ball leaves his hand, it’s only like 53 feet away from you, which is nothing. Uh Gunner swings and misses at the first pitch he sees. His name’s Gunner and he’s dating my mom. 50 RBI on the season now. Half of those have come in the last 35 ball games. It took half a season to get those other RBI. This one’s popped up and out of play. It’s 0 and2. So Gilbert is putting up some of his best numbers yet as a major leager this season. Batting average against ERA and he’s got a herkyjerky delivery and Gunner goes down swinging on three pitches. Well, this is what dominant pitching can do, folks. I mean, honestly, I saw it in Kirby last night. It took maybe by one batter in the second inning for me to realize that the one- nothing lead the Mariners had built may as well have been four or five nothing. You get the sense here if the Orioles fall behind. I mean, Rogers is going to have to keep doing what he’s been doing. I don’t know how. I mean, this is a this is a kind of picture Logan Gilbert where his worst enemy, his his biggest rival or, you know, biggest foe is him himself. It’s really all upon himself and his ability to just, you know, if he pitches like he can, this is going to be really difficult. But if he uh you know if he loses focus, loses rhythm, something something to bother him mentally, physically, something. I don’t know what else to hope for with this guy. I hope they don’t completely knock the whole left field corner upper deck out. They have talked about that. It’s nice to have when we do pack the yard. Good evening, John. How are you? All right, Rogers facing Suarez and a big cut and a miss on a fast ball of 94. Suarez and Naylor, the two batters coming up here, both coming over at the trade deadline from the Mariners or from the Diamondbacks. Not the first time Suarez has been a Mariner, though. One- one pitch is hit up the middle. That is a base hit. A worm burner in the center field. Johnson throws it back in. That was a 103 off the bat. Leadoff single by Suarez. And here comes Naylor. Now, yeah, I’d read something similar, Clifford, about turning the upper deck into one of these. Yeah. you know, party areas or whatever. I I I don’t know. Look, when the Orioles got together with uh what what’s the name of the uh building company? It used to be like I I I forget. I I I used to know it well, but the company behind the architecture of Camden Yards. Here’s a ground ball. Gunner charges. It has only one play. goes to first, gets the out there. Suarez moves up to second base on a ground ball out by Josh Naylor. Yeah, the the architectural group that uh built Camden Yards, like what makes Camden Yards so special is that they went completely against the grain of all the conventional things about modern ballparks at the time. They were seeing how everybody was trying to out like, you know, tech or out futurize everybody else. And I think Skydome was probably the pinnacle of that. Oh my god, this place has a putt putt golf course and a shopping mall. Like, what are we doing here? Right. That’s when the Orioles had the idea, you know what? You know what I think? What fans want? I think fans want something uh that reminds them of the past more than what the future might have in store. Let’s build stuff with some bricks. Let’s put some old advertisement out there like they did in the old days, which back in 92 or whatever when it opened, nobody was doing. Now it’s everywhere. But my point is, don’t try and just keep up with the Joneses when it comes to, you know, messing with the We already got a beautiful ballpark here. We had a lot of people imitate it for the next 25 years or so, right? I don’t I don’t I don’t want to now try and catch up with them when whatever they’re doing. This is our This is our park. Anybody feel me? All right, I’ll shut up. Mitch Garver’s at the plate. He’s got a 3-1 count while I’ve been talking. And now the count has gone full as Rogers hits the outside corner with a change up. One out, runner at second base. Garver, good numbers against lefties. That’s why he’s in the lineup. Swinging a miss here though. A change up from Rogers. Low. He gets the chase and the big strike out for out number two. Well, y’all come back now, you hear? Well, y’all come back now, you hear? All right, two down. Jorge Palano, switch hitter from the right side, takes outside ball one. Nobody seems to have any opinion about how our ballpark was made at a time where we went against the grain and that’s kind of what made it stand alone and admired by so many and copied. So why then now capitulate and try and do these other little quirky things in the ballpark to mimic other No, we’ve got our own thing here. It’s good. Two pitch to Palanco. A change up swung on a miss. Two and one. Now this is not to say I’m not, you know, that I’m automatically opposed to any new idea. Uh, I’m open to any suggestions like the bird bath out there in left field. That’s that’s great. It’s good for the fans. Called strike on the outside edge. Two and two the count now on Palanco. Two outs, runner at second. But, you know, they’re going to be installing a new scoreboard out there in right center above the bleachers there. I hope it’s not a giant eyesore. I’m sure it’ll have that 4K resolution. It’ll look really sharp. That’s fine. But uh I don’t know. Just uh try and keep the try try to focus by the way your your creativity into making the team better. All right. Leave the ballpark alone. Two two pitch to Palanos. Fouled away. We’ll do it again. What are they doing with the pasture? I mean, other than just designating the area, giving out hats, another foul ball by Palanco. Still two and two. Two two down, runner at second base. We’re in the top of the second, no score. 24 pitches now for Rogers. A lot of them have been in this at bat alone. The next 22 popped up. Is this gonna get out of play? It will. Mayo had a look. Just calling it that. Well, yeah. Uh, it’s the it’s the cows cowser’s pasture. I don’t know. The pasture. I don’t 2-2 again is low. Palano laid off the change up. Full count now. Pretty impressive at bat by Palanco regardless of the uh result here. Line drive but hit on a bounce to Gunner. He will fire to first just in time. Gunner with a bit of a struggle to plant and throw after fielding this one hopper a little bit toward the hole. He made that a lot closer than I think it needed to be, but he does get Palano out at first. The inning is over. We go to the bottom of the second. No score and Baltimore. All right. Well, what do we think, folks? Let’s take a look over here. There’s over a hundred people here watching. Well, what what is that? It’s like as soon as it goes to commercial, so many people leave. Well, for those I you know what I got to start doing? I got to start bringing up hitting the like button right when an inning is starting, not right when they go to commercial because you know what happens? There is a group of people. I see it. Uh the numbers spike when the game is on and then a commercial break like 20% of the audience just goes because they’re probably looking at other things on their phone and what have you, you know, like you do. You’re like, “All right, let me minimize this. I’m going to go over here now and read a text, call for an Uber. I don’t know. Whatever you got to do, but they know in their mind, I got like two and a half minutes. Do some other things, then I’ll come back.” So, why am I advertising or or or asking for folks to hit the like button during moments where they’re probably not here? I’m learning this, folks. I’m learning this. But yeah, we’re doing great. Up to 90 likes already. And even though 20 people just left, they’ll be back. All right, we got some Orioles miked up tonight. It sounds like Buck Britain’s miked up. All right, Buck. Bucks miked up. Alli Rutman at the plate. Top of the second. First pitch from Gilbert is outside. Ball one. Yeah, Gilbert’s a tough cookie, man. Let the clutch out gently. Okay. I mean, he’s got that 7 and 1/2t span before the ball leaves his hand. He’s got that herkyjerky motion. There’s a call strike. He’s got really good command. That’s on the outside edge. One ball, one strike. Rutman’s hitting 235. Nine homers, 27 driven in. There’s a tapper toward Short and Rutman is out. More weak contact. I mean, what did we have last night? three hits and one of them I want to say was like an infield hit and then somebody got picked off anyway or something. Here is Ryan Mount Castle with one away. Okay, mount up line drive. Base hit into right center field to the left side of the second baseman playing close to his bag. Mounty finds some space. 101 off the bat. First base runner of the day for the Orioles. And we can hit a line drive off of Gilbert. It’s possible. All right, let’s uh moisturize. Here comes Ryan. Not no not check swing on the first pitch. Ball one, folks. I hear a bugle in the stadium. Come on, Nota. I know you got it in you, buddy. I can feel it. Takes outside two and 0. I know you got an eye, not career versus Gilbert. Nota has two hits and four at bats, including a double. How about that? That’s a small sample size, but if you’re two for four off a good pitcher, that’s a pretty good sign that you can at least dance with them. It’s now 3 and 0 on Nota. Runner at first, one out. Take a pitch. He does. That’s a strike. All right. Now the fun begins again. Not the only one season where he’s had a considerable amount of bad bats. He swings and misses full count. And in that one season, he drew 77 walks. His batting average was only in the 230s, but because of his ability to work the count and draw walks, the on base percentage was up in the 360s, which, you know, it’s a comparison. Santandere’s on base last season was about what 315. So, you know, Nota may not be a first baseman that puts up 30 homers, but if we’re talking about a moneyball kind of a player, and Nota is originally an athletic, he gets on base. Well, he does not get on base here. On a full count, the payoff pitch is swung on a missed. And that pitch had a lot of the plate. That was a come and get me fast ball from Gilbert and not down on strikes. Two down and the batter Kobe Mayo big swing on the first pitch, but he only fouls it back. Folks, if watching Trevor Rogers pitch at this stage of the season is the best thing about this Orioles team right now, I think the second most interesting storyline is the development of Kobe Mayo as he takes one low, one ball, one strike. Mayo to me now that he’s getting regular playing time and also mentally is feeling more secure about his place on the team is showing so much more maturity at the plate. Here’s a ground ball to third. They’ll go the short way to second for the force to win the inning. Mayo hits one on the ground to third. It wasn’t hit too sharp, but we had some decent contact there. But the inning will end. No score between the Mariners and the Orioles after two innings. All right. Thank you, George, for posting up some mayo in the chat. How about a look around at the out of town scores in the bottom of the sixth? Marlins up 11 to4 on the Guardians. Cleveland trying to make a push for that. American League Central that always seems to be up for grabs. There’s always a late run by some. Last year was Detroit. The Guardians trying to beat last year’s Tigers in that division, but they are trailing the Marlins 11 to4. Rain delay, uh, I don’t think they’ve started between the Twins and the Yankees. Cubs are up two to one over the Blue Jays in the bottom of the six. Mets and Braves are also dealing with rain before their game has started. Houston up on the Red Sox, excuse me, two to one, bottom of the sixth. Everything else is either final or not yet started. Earlier, the Tigers shut out the White Socks 1- nothing. The Brewers made it what, 13 in a row. Uh, beating up on the Pirates by a touchdown, 12 to five. Nats squeaked by the Royals 8-7. Rockies with a win. They beat the Cardinals six to five. Diamondbacks over the Rangers six-4. The Padres’s uh annihilated the Giants 11 to1. Raone Lauriano with a home run in that ball game. The Reds shut out the Phillies eight zip. Coming up later, two ball games as JP Crawford takes a pitch inside ball one to begin the top of the third here in this Orioles Mariners game. Dodgers and Angels. The battle of LA will be getting started in about 45 minutes or so. Here’s a foul at the plate by Crawford. One ball, one strike. He goes down to one knee. I guess he got that foul ball in a bad spot. Going to be a few seconds before we see another pitch. Last game that hasn’t been touched on. Rays in Athletics out in Sacramento. That game will start in about well just after 10 o’clock East Coast time. So, here we are. Top of the third inning. Uh, the trainer is out to take a look at JP Crawford after he took a foul ball somewhere. I did not get a look, but he’s got a smile on his face. And the trainers are walking away. So, he will resume his at bat with a 1-1 count. No score here. Game two. Game one barely had a score itself. One- nothing Seattle on a first inning run. Was all the offense in last night’s game. Ground ball foul by Crawford off to the right. It’s a ball and two strikes. Next pitch from Rogers outside two and two. Hunter Green tossing a gym. I guess you’re implying there, Michael, with the Reds shutting out. Uh, who’ they shut out? Billy. Here’s a base hit into the left field by Crawford. Leadoff single for the Mariners off of Rogers. The left lefty Crawford recovers from that foul ball contact and a couple of pitches later he gets a base hit. He’s on it first. Crawford can steal a base on you. Rogers facing Dylan Moore. First pitch to him is inside. Moore, the number nine batter, playing right field tonight. He can play pretty much anywhere other than behind the plate, but he’s only batting 196. Takes a pitch a little bit outside. 2 and 0. You don’t want to fall behind this guy. sub 200 hitter batting ninth in the order. He got a some tough batters coming up after him. Nobody out in the inning. 20 swinging a miss. A heater top of the zone. Rogers from the belt. 2-1 after a second look over at the runner. This one’s fouled back. Two and two now on more. Scoreboard’s doing okay, guys. Again, I wish I had better vision. It’s really hard for me to tell if a scoreboard has frozen or if it’s actively updating. I haven’t seen anybody tell me different. There’s a swing and a miss. a fast ball right down the middle. Folks, you can’t walk up and place a baseball any more in the middle of the plate than this pitch. And Moore might have foul tipped it, but that’s it. He goes down on strikes. Well, y’all come back now. You hear? All right. Randy Rosarena, the lineup flips over for the first time tonight. He’s 0 for one. First pitch he looks at as a strike. A little ground out to third back in the first for Rose Arena. This one’s fouled away. 0 and2. Runner at first. One out. No score. Top of the third. I need at least one of you magic uh one of you uh bird watchers out there to go watch that ice cube war of the worlds so we can talk about it. It’s so bad. Swing and a miss. There’s that change up from Rogers. Nasty on the outside a couple inches off the plate but it just hangs out there. Rosa Rain is expecting it to come over the outside corner and the ball just is suspended in the air. Suspended animation. Another strike out for Rogers. Well, y’all come back now. You hear? Oh, yeah. I bet, man. Padre fans right now are just loving watching Lauriano with that arm of his just throwing cannons in the outfield. Two down for Cal Raleigh and he takes a swing and a miss that Rogers change up folks. Nobody’s hitting it. Nobody is hitting it. And he’s doing a good job between hitting the bottom of the zone or knowing when to let it drop a little lower and get a chase. Then he goes up with a fast ball, a sinker at 93. Raleigh can only foul it away. It’s 0 and2. I mean, Rogers is pitching. I don’t know how to tell you this, folks. This is what pitching is. mixing the pitching pitching up uh the the the the pitch type moving the ball around hitting the spots, building a reputation both in the ump’s mind and the batter’s mind that you’re going to hit your next spot and uh that that really keeps him off balance and with the umps helps gets you calls on the borderline too. Here’s a ground ball to third. Westberg floats a throw over to first in time and this inning is over. Trevor Rogers is in another mood tonight, folks. He is in another mood. He’s given up a couple of hits, but uh looking sharp as we go to the bottom of the third. No score with the Orioles and the Mariners. Padre is going to be dangerous in the playoffs. Brewers are looking good. I really, honestly, folks, in terms of an American League representative, I I want the these Mariners I want these Mariners to They’ve never won a pennant. They’re the only team. They’re the only team I can look at with a fan base and say, “All right, you’ve got more reason to be depressed than me. This team has been around since what, like the mid70s. It took him like 16 years just to get to their first playoff game. Remember that series with the Yankees, Randy Johnson, and the walk-off and all that. I mean, some of the best D 76. Sorry, what’ I say? 75. Sorry. All right, I’ll throw in the one season of the Seattle Pilots from 69 and tack it on to the start of the 76 team. Okay, the point is we’re talking about half a century here, more or less. All right, we’re talking about half a century. And look, Mariner folks, Seattle fan base, they love baseball. They’re not a Johnny come lately like fairweather fan base. They love baseball. They they were the key really to unlocking the talent from Japan into coming over here. If Ichiro and Seattle, if the proxim if the geographical proximity wasn’t there, we may not have an Otani playing in the majors today. Am I saying crazy things? Maybe. I don’t know. Somebody had to be the first. Uh, not that Ichro was the very first Japanese player. The very first actually goes back to like the late 1800s. Here’s a fly ball to left field by Daniel Johnson on one pitch. He’s retired. Buddy, can I get to know you first? I don’t even have a button. Oh, I do have a button for you. Who are you? Who are you? Who are you? Who are you? All right. Dylan Carlson hitting 186. First pitch to him is inside for ball one. And yeah, you just think about the Mariners with all the great players they’ve had all over the years to never win a pennant. that one season they won like 119 games or something and then got like I think swept in the uh division series that year by somebody. They had Ichiro. They had Randy Johnson. They had Ken Griffy Jr. They had Alex Rodriguez. Say what you want about him, but if there was ever a time in A-Rod’s career that he was at least tolerable enough to watch and admire play, it was his early years with the Mariners. Here’s a little flare to left, but a Rosarena playing shallow coming in to make the catch. Carlson’s retired. Two down for the Orioles here in the bottom of the third. And then back to the earlier years of Seattle, uh, that first playoff team with with guys like Jay Buunner, Edgar Martinez, Omar Viskeell, our boy Mark McLemore was over there for a bit, right? Harold Reynolds as well. Here’s a ground ball to first. And Holiday is retired on what, one pitch. 26 pitches for three innings for Logan Gilbert. This offense. They’re not trying. They’re not trying. That’s less than nine pitches per inning. Less than nine pitches per inning. just going up there trying to make any kind of contact. Just put it in play, run it out and go back to the dugout. Try and remember Ryan Nota, he had like that three ball count. I mean, 40% of these pitches have been him. Everybody else making one pitch out, two pitch out. If they see three pitches, that means they’re striking out. I need a break. I mean, folks, you tell me this. According to Mike Elias, uh, all of the coaching staff, their job security has been announced months ago as being safe. It was like as soon as Brandon Hyde was uh shown the door, they felt the need to publicly announce that all the other coaching staff, oh, they’re safe. They’re fine. So, even though Cody Ashley, for example, the hitting coach, the main hitting coach, who by the way, brand new to the gig, it’s a no no matter how this offense does, his job is safe. Well, then tell me this. seeing as how this offense is clearly just just anemic and at this stage of the season where we’re no we’re not going anywhere. Why wouldn’t you at least try something new? Try just mix it up. I’m seeing nothing from this oral offense in terms of just trying to do anything to prevent performances like we’ve been seeing lately. I mean, and again, I’m not t Look, I’m not All right, first pitch, second pitch popped up by Julio Rodriguez to left field, wandering into foul ground as Carlson to make the catch. One down, top of the fourth. I’m not even trying to put the blame or the onus of all this on these fringe players in the bottom four spots in the lineup. I’m talking about our everyday guys that we’re depending on to be sluggers next season if we’re going to contend. Jackson Holiday, Gunner’s doing okay right now. Leave him alone. uh Westber and and Adley, guys like that. I want to see them putting together really good abs and trying to get themselves back into the kind of players they’re expected to be. Not just sit here and just put in lazy at bats, make one, two pitch outs, and just wait for next season. Cuz next season, there’s no guarantee you’re suddenly going to figure it out. You need to figure it out now. All right, there’s a strike out by Rogers. Forgive me, I’m just going off on a rant. He strikes out Suarez for the second out of the inning. Good fast ball in on the hands right on the inside edge of the zone. First pitch here to Josh Naylor is over the plate below for ball one. Rogers pitch count is doing great. This next one will be number 50 on the night and it’s a swing and a miss. Base is empty, two down. Scoreless game. Top of the fourth. The 1-1 from Rogers to Naylor is outside. Two and one the count. Here’s a ground ball foul off to the right. Two and two. And by the way, if we’re going to get another fantastic start out of Trevor Rogers, when is the ownership/mike Elias? When’s that light bulb going to go off? like, oh my god, we we potentially have an ace right here in our lap. Uh if we continue to let him perform like this, eventually he’s going to build up a resume where he is a legit ace and now we have to pay him a legit ace contract extension that would include several years more than we probably want to commit and more annual salary. How about you lock this dude up right now for like a four-year deal? cuz he’s done enough for me to earn it. Swing and a miss. Naylor strikes out. There you go. come back now. You hear? I mean, to me, Rogers, if he went to go trade for this guy and you expected him to turn into something and he has, what are we waiting on? What are we waiting on? Lock this dude up, right? I mean, if you wait longer, the price is only going to go up. I mean, sure, he could collapse, but is that what you want to count on? And the thing is, if he did, if you were to lock him up now versus locking him up later when he gets more expensive and then he collapses, then your investment isn’t as big of a loss. So, just do it now. Do it now. I’m sick and tired of opening up my news feed for baseball and seeing all these other teams locking up good players for several years and we can’t do it with one damn guy. Can we w can we lock up one guy? I mean, the Rays lock up players. Come on. Ah, like like Brandon Laauo for example, they were smart enough to give Brandon Laauo a contract a couple of years ago where it added on extra years to to uh his uh tenure with the team. And you know, that’s a powerhitting second baseman that’s getting paid like 4 million and change a season. If if if the Rays would have let him walk at at his normal free agent year, he’d be making five times that. Easy. Easy. Five times. Cuz they locked him up. Hey, here’s Jordan Westber. West is that way. Line drive right field. A diving catch attempt made. Unbelievable out there and right by Dylan Moore, the utility man. Westber is at first base thinking the ball’s trapped. It looked like a catch to me, but it could have been a trap. Replay says that looks like a catch. A backhanded catch. And yeah, the ball does kind of wiggle around in the glove, but it never hits the ground. That’s a good catch. We can’t buy a break, folks. Here’s Gunnar Henderson. He takes a first pitch strike. His name’s Gunnar and he’s dating my mom. Cannot buy a break. Yeah. Erra for Rogers right now. 1.36. What more do you want to see? At what point do you say this is not an anomaly? This is what he is. And folks, again, this is Major League Baseball. A pitcher like Rogers next year could be only a fraction as good as he is right now. And maybe there would be some regret. There’s a base hit by Gunner. That’s going to go all the way to the wall. Gunner will glide into second base with a one out double, folks. Splash it up. All right, 28th double for Gunner. The homer count may not might not be up there, but the double count is 28th homer. Uh, double now for Gunner. Just stroked it into right hard enough to roll all the way to the wall. All right, the first potential run of the ball game is at second base. Rutman is at the plate and he looks at one low for ball one. Folks, can we get a rally, please? Come on now. We have not scored since uh who was in town on Sunday. Pitch outside. 2 and 0. Come on, folks. Let the clutch out gently. Okay. Gunner at second. One out. Two and0 on Adley. The pitch in. Oh, he called it a strike. Just caught the inside edge. Two and one. Gilbert does get more hitable with each trip through the order, which is understandable, but it’s not really till that third time through that the numbers get much worse. Second time through, they’re still only hitting just above the Mendoza line opponents. 207. It’s two and two now on Adley. Come on, buddy. I’d love to know what it feels like to be in the lead. That’s low. Full count, folks. Crowd making some noise now. Orioles trying to finally make Gilbert work a little bit. Work up a sweat. Before this inning again, he had only thrown what was it like uh 26 pitches through three innings or something. Swing and a miss. A slider on the back door bottom corner. Two down. Rutman strikes out again. Gilbert just hitting the perfect spot and not relying on just straight gas. Two down in the inning. Ryan Mount Castle do up. Cal Rowley goes out to talk to Gilbert. probably about who they’d rather face. If they were to walk Mount Castle, put the force at any base other than home with two down. And it’s a pretty big drop off at least in terms of experience between Mounty here and the next batter due up which is uh Daniel Johnson or excuse me Ryan Nota also has a base hit off of Gilbert already. So let’s see if he’ll get something here. Check swing. Don’t tell me he went. Okay, first pitch, a slider low and away. Mount Castle able to lay off of it. Easiest scouting report of any of our players. Sliders lowing away to Mount Castle. The 10 low 2 and 0. I get the sense Gilbert’s only going to try to get Mounty to chase and he’d rather face Nota. Even though the righty lefty matchup on paper isn’t uh ideal, there is a strike. All right, looks like Gilbert’s hair is getting a little sweaty out there. Come on, Baltimore. Get something. Two down, runner at second. Two and one on Mount Castle. That pitch way off. Nice save by Raleigh on a ball that bounced in there to his right. Three and one the count on Mount Castle. Big moment right here, folks. Uh, Hutchkins, I don’t know. We’re really not here for uh drama. All right, so whatever. All right. Mount Castle just got struck out. There’s two down. Here comes Ryan Nota. All right, folks. Ryan Nota is the guy I’m putting my chips on the table for right now. Come on, buddy. Give us a big hit off a tough pitcher. First and second, two down. Pitch takes high. Ball one. fast ball of 95. Folks, we’ve hit 100 likes. I appreciate that and I want to thank you very much for that. I really do. There’s a strike, a slider at the knees on the outer half of the plate. One ball, one strike on Nota. No score. Bottom of the fourth. Baltimore with two men on the pitch. Popped up. Foul. One ball, two strikes. Come on, buddy. Offense. We’ve been waiting a long time. Please something. The one two way outside two feet or more. Two balls, two strikes. Not asks for time and Gilbert turns around, wipes some sweat with his sleeve. And here we go again. Two balls, two strikes, two on, two out. The pitch from Gilbert called strike three. a front door slider. And not having words. He was walking back. Came back to chirp at the ump a little. Now he slams his hat down. Nota might be looking for a tossing here. The inning is over and the Orioles leave two men on here. This game is still scoreless. Best chance to score off of Gilbert. Goes by the wayside onto the fifth inning. Nothing. Nothing. Yeah, it was a good strike, George. It was a good pitch. Gilbert’s good. This damn Mariner rotation. I was saying it last night. Just imagine. Imagine like four out of every 80% of the time you turn on a Mariners’s game, you know there’s somebody on the mound starting that knows how to pitch and the m the overwhelming majority of the time is going to give you six innings or more at three runs or less. It’s got to be a good feeling. or even the opposite of of just knowing that the pitcher isn’t going to give up two or three home runs in the first inning and put your team so far behind early that uh the game’s essentially over. They never have to worry about that with that pitching staff. We need a new hitting coach. I’m sorry. There’s just opportunities are there, but we can’t cash in. Well, the cashing in part, that’s that’s what baseball is. You got to score the runs. You got to bring people home. Uh, I didn’t mean to sound all That sounded kind of condescending. I didn’t mean it to. Here’s a ground ball to short. Gunner backhands it, straightens up, and throws out Garver. One away in the top of the fifth. Mitch Garver grounds out six to three. But, uh, yeah, just how do how do you how do you go into next spring with the the hitting coaches, the hitting philosophy, the whole thing? How do how do you not make changes? How the numbers are there? I don’t know another team that has seen their offense take as large of a dip in the span of one season than uh the Orioles. And it’s not just about personnel leaving and the wrong players replacing them. Like for example, Santandere leaving to me isn’t the reason why this offense is so uh unreliable and uh at times completely invisible. Uh Jorge Palano has a count of one and two. One out and the pitch hit in the air center field. Johnson is taking a couple steps back, but he’s still in front of the track to make the catch. Two down. I just see regression in so many. I mean, Gunner’s finally getting it going. Adley’s been something’s been off for a long time. Cowser’s taken a huge step back this season. Uh Westberg, I think he’d be fine if he wasn’t injured. If he been an everyday player this season, I think it all averages out for Westber if it does feel like he’s not as sharp as he was last season at the play. But I don’t know. I don’t know. I just My thing is who’s improved? Who has Cody Ashley helped to improve, make a better hitter? I I can’t I couldn’t tell you. Here’s JP Crawford. He’s got an 02 count now with two down. And now it’s a ball and two strikes. Apologies for not calling every pitch. It’s a scoreless game. It’s not like I’m calling a blowout here. I should be a little more engaged. The one two. That’s a called strike three on the outside edge. Trevor Rogers. Five more scoreless innings. Well, y’all come back now. You hear that? ERA is going to be in the 13s here pretty soon. I mean, the ERA is so low now that it’s only going down like 1/100th of a run. on every out. 1.34 ERA at the moment. 1.34 ERA. Ridiculous. Lock them up. Six strikeouts, no walks, and no run support to to be seen. Man, oh man. Oh, chevitz. I’ll tell you what, let’s just do an anonymous poll because I don’t want anybody to just agree with me or or even just disagree. Like this is a nice and anonymous, but like would would you like to see a new hitting coach on this team next season? And I mean anyone else there. There’s our poll for the night. Oh, I can probably get rid of this pinned comment. Let’s see. Oh, wow. So far, it’s a landslide. Hey, Jim Palmer’s rocking an Orioles plastic cowboy hat. Okay, here’s Kobe Mayo. Bottom of the fifth. First pitch is right in there. A slider for a strike. Lots of sliders from Gilbert tonight. Lots and lots of slider. This might be my first poll that’s gotten 100%. This is in on the hands of Mayo. And this one is just a little soft pop up right to the second baseman for the first out. Another out. I would I would I would seriously if he were a real person and still alive, I would hire Patches Ohan to be the hitting coach over this current crop. I did say crop, right? Okay, here’s Daniel Johnson 0 for one. He’s got a count of 0 and one. One out, nobody on. Bottom of the fifth. Takes a pitch low. One ball, one strike. Curveball from Gilbert. I know Danny, but you know the Orioles, they already said nobody that no coaches are going to be uh changed now. Not all season. We knew this. They made this announcement like in late May. They knew then. I sound like Jud Hirs in Independence Day. You knew then and you did nothing. What was that? That that place that the the the Area 51, right? You knew then and you did nothing. Uh Johnson with a Baltimore chop. The shorts stop on the second base side of the infield will get there in time and throw Johnson out. Bang bang play at first. Two away in the bottom of the fifth. Dylan Carlson. Dylan. Dylan, your son. First pitch to Carlson is a strike at the bottom of the zone. Gilbert finally had an inning where he had to work a little bit, but the pitch count is still such where he could probably go eight innings if he wanted to. Another perfect pitch. Fast ball right on the outside edge hitting that corner by one stitch of the baseball. Oh my goodness. The poll has an opposing view. Somebody wants to keep the hitting coaching uh staff in place. We’re fine. Okay. There’s always somebody pitch in the dirt. One and two on Carlson. the one two is swung on and missed. A splitter. That’s Gilbert’s best pitch. He hasn’t used it much tonight, but he hasn’t needed to. But it’s a strikeout pitch here. A splitter. And down go the Orioles here in the fifth. Onto the sixth inning. Still scoreless, folks. Anybody else enjoying this series where there’s been a grand total of one run and that was by the opposing team in the first inning of game one. Exciting, folks. I’ll be right back. Matt Holiday for the pitching coach. All right. Why not? Why not? I want the Hawk Tua girl to be our new GM. Why not? H. Oh, boy. All right. Oh my. I think it’s time to Where is a little better looking. All right. Uh top of the sixth. Trevor Rogers first pitch is fouled way by Dylan Moore. Moore made a nice catch out in right field robbing Westber of a hit. He’s 0 for one at the plate. Next pitch is outside. One ball, one strike. Hey, now Rachel, let’s let’s not underestimate the value of sunflower seeds. Now, good source of protein. Good way to avoid chewing dip. I don’t know. I don’t know what I’m talking about. Why? Why does this look like it’s not helping? We’re going darker. We’re going really dark. What is it? Is it this? I don’t know. Whatever. I’m very pink, folks. I’m radioactive. I look radioactive right now. I need a Silkwood shower. One, two, pitch to more outside. Two and two. We’re in the top of the six. No score. Orio fans. Uh, look like somebody needs to tap him on the shoulder whenever we get a Raleigh going. Let them know there’s a ball game going on. Two and two the count on more. Rogers just hit 70 pitches. That one’s fouled away again. Moore is battling here. Seen seven pitches already. leading off the top of the six. He got the top of the order after him. Ground ball third base. Westber scoops, throws, and gets more. One down. All right. You’re in the big leagues. You’re in the big league, too. Randy Rosarena is two uh excuse me 0 for two. Look at that first pitch sweeper from Rogers sweeping across the entire zone and hitting the inside corner for strike one. And then the change up swung on and missed. Folks, I got to tell you, it’s like uh it’s like playing chess. Rogers isn’t just throwing. He is pitching. Popped up. Weak contact center field. And that’s the second out. Ball caught out there by Johnson. Cal Raleigh up next. Trevor Rogers is gunning for Milt Papus’s record of 10 straight starts with two earned runs or fewer. This is number eight right now. Or or is he have eight and this will be number nine once he departs assuming two runs or less. It’s just been amazing. Uh Cal Riley takes a pitch inside for ball one. swinging a miss on that change up again. One ball, one strike. Yeah, he’ll want to stay. If we’re going to offer him the kind of money, that would be a big big uh you know, pay raise starting now. Uh I think he’d be interested if if we are like, “Dude, you’re our ace. We are anointing you our ace. We want you to stay. What’s it going to take? We traded for you because we believed in you and now we want to make you our guy. What do you want? One and two to Raleigh. Pitch. That ball’s lifted to left. Long run going toward the track. And with just enough room in the corner, Dylan Carlson makes the catch. Trevor Rogers keeps Cal Rally in the ballpark. Only just six more shut out innings from All right. First of all, folks, we need to start working on a nickname. Nobody who’s this good can go without a nickname. What do we do? And I don’t want something like T- rod or Trev Trevrod or one of these type thing. We need like a we need something special for this guy. Work on a nickname for him and uh let’s we’ll we’ll try to nail one down here. Unbelievable. Erra is 1.30. So if he gets one more out, his erra as a starting pitcher will be in the one twos. Duck Rogers as a homage to Duck Dodgers. The problem with that, George, is imagine how that nickname will be used if he starts to, you know, go downhill. That duck will be replaced by another word real fast. Trev. See, that’s what I’m talking about. Trev. I I Tom, come on, man. He needs like a special like the, you know, like Bautista’s the mountain. He’s the mountain. You And as soon as you know, as you hear it, you know, as soon as you hear the mountain, you know, oh, the that’s the mountain right there. We need We need a nickname like that. Not a play on words. This guy is the What’s that one movie? What am I thinking about? There you go again. T-Rod. What did I just say? It’s the laziest form of nicknames. Oh, I’ll take an initial or a first syllable. And no, we’re talking about a whole word devoted to this guy or a phrase. Here’s Jackson Holiday. Uh, he takes a first pitch strike. Holiday is 0 for two. Ace Ace Ventura two when Trevor calls that pitch outside by a couple of feet. One and one on Holiday. Trebonator. All right, Rachel. That’s even That might be Did you just use chat GPT for that one? the roar. Okay, IndieJ IndyJ is starting to figure it out. I’m not sure if that’s going to be uh the final, but that’s that’s that’s in the running. I like it. The roar. The roar. Mr. Zero Whip. How about How about Cool Whip? How about we got Kobe Mayo? Oh, wait. I’m thinking of a miracle whip. How about mira one or the other? Cool whip or miracle whip. It is a miracle whip right now. I might go with miracle whip. And that way we got we got mayonnaise and salad dressing. Here’s a popup by Holiday to center field. Rodriguez is waiting on it. I I love it when Rachel just says nope. Same thing when I brought up Ryan not just a nope. As if Trevvenator was ever going to be the the name. Come on, Rachel. Come on. It’s better than Trevenator. Uh I like Miracle Whip at least as a placeholder. Swinging a miss. Westberg. He is 0 for two. He did line out his last time. Up. One out. Nobody on. Bottom of the six. Gilbert. Uh George. I think uh our last base runner was sometime between Ronda Rousey’s last MMA win and uh the cancellation of of the I’m thinking of a show. I It’s been a long time. That’s basically what I’m implying. I don’t know. Two and one the count on Westber after a check swing appeal. He didn’t go. What I’m saying is a long time or it feels that way. Gilbert. Oh my. That slider looked more like a splitter the way it went straight down. It is two and two on Westber after he missed that pitch. Come on, Jordan. Okay. Oh, he was too early. Westberg was jumping on that pitch. Too early, though. Pulls it way foul. Westberg does well with the breaking stuff. 2-2 low full count. Good at bat here from Westber. Quality at bat against a tough pitcher. They’re playing the bugle at the yard. I’ll follow suit. The payoff pitch to Westber. Ball four. Great at bat, Jordan. Take your base. I’m walking here. I’m walking here. A refreshing change of pace after several innings of watching Gilbert get the side out on eight pitches, 10 pitches. Westber making Gilbert work and he wins the battle. He is on base. He is the run that could win this game. Here’s Gunnar Henderson. He goes into center field, but it’s right at him. Julio Rodriguez will make the catch. Two down. Gunner trying to ambush a first pitch. Hit it right at somebody though. Two down. It’ll be up to Rutman to continue the inning. Needs an extra base hit to drive this run in. Unless Westberg has designs on swiping second. Rutman is 0 for two. Takes a first pitch strike. Short lead from Westber, but Naylor really isn’t holding him on either. Pitch in the dirt. One ball, one strike. Come on, Adley. One shot to the gap might be all the offense we need tonight, but we need at least one run. Hard hit ball on the ground, but right to second, and that’ll end the inning. H it has been a pitcher pitching duel folks. Six innings complete now. Both teams of just two hits. The Mariners have left two men on base. The Orioles four. On to the late innings. Seventh inning coming up. Still nothing. Nothing. I got to go back and look at something here. When the hell did we last score a run? And then when I do that, when’s the last time we scored in more than one run in a game? All right, so final game against the A’s on last Wednesday, right? Am I looking at this right? Or no, on Friday night. No, Sunday. Sunday afternoon. Uh, where’s the box score? We last scored in the seventh inning against the A’s on Sunday. And in that game, we had two runs on five hits for the entire game. So, we have averaged under a run now for three games. We only scored three in the previous game. That was an 11 to3 loss. We won 3-2. We have not scored more than three runs since we played the Phillies uh what six games, five games ago. The 36 8 Eight runs in the last five games and none in the last two. Not pretty, folks. Trevor Rogers out for his seventh inning of work. First pitch to Julio Rodriguez is fouled away. Look at that pitch. Change up. Caught the outside corner at the knees. Perfect. 0 and two. Fouled away. It’s just refreshing to watch a starting pitcher that just knows exactly what he wants to do with every pitch and knows where it’s going. Another quality pitch on O2. I mean, these are two straight O2 pitches where a lot of other guys would just be like, “All right, let me just throw in five inches off the plate. Maybe he’ll chase I just don’t want him to get a pitch to hit on 02. But Rogers is painting corners on 02. Another good O2 pitch. It’s fouled away. Too close for Rodriguez to take. So impressive. Another 02 and a ch sinker just got a piece of that one. Did Rodriguez the O2 again. Another foul ball. I mean, Rogers won’t even just give the courtesy of of one sort of throwaway pitch to a guy like Julio Rodriguez, the number three hitter in this lineup. He doesn’t care. And he gets a ball hit out to center field and deep. That ball is going to bounce off the wall and unfortunately far away from Johnson. It’s going to allow Rodriguez to scamper all the way to third base with a standup leadoff triple here in the top of the seventh. Is that unfortunate or what? This pitch from Rogers was great. It was low and out of the zone. Another 02 pitch and Julio just went down and got it. And Johnson did not play that ball off the wall well at all. Well, that cost an extra base. And in a scoreless game, a leadoff triple versus a leadoff double is a huge difference. So, Rogers now has to somehow figure out a way to get three outs without a guy at third base scoring. And he’s got to face Ahane Suarez right now. First pitch is fouled away. Josh Naylor on deck. popped up on the infield. Well, shallow shallow right field. Too shallow for Rodriguez to tag. And Rogers gets the first out here in the seventh. Ryan Nota coming in from right field to make that catch. That is a big out. Now you got to put Naylor on here. Even the lefty lefty. Well, it’s lefty lefty. But it sets up a double play. It’s a scoreless ball game. Uh, who hits after Naylor? What do you do here? The infield is in. They’re not going to walk him. He got the right-handed Mitch Garver on deck. Ground ball past Holiday. He can’t stop it. He’s drawn in. It’s into the outfield and the Mariners take a one to nothing lead. Where was Jackson? I know the ball’s hit hard, but you’re bringing your infield in you. It It’s The exit VO is 100 on the money. So, it’s a hard hit ball, but not extremely hard. Holiday has to just get a glove on it and stop that ball from getting through. He’s right there. One- nothing Seattle. We’re in the top of the seventh. Drew French is out to talk to Rogers. Now, is this going to be another one- nothing loss where our starter goes eight innings of one-run ball only to walk away with a loss? You would hope not, man. Jackson, come on, dude. I mean, you gotta keep that ball from going by you like it. Your life depends on it, man. Mitch Garver first pitch swung on a miss fast ball top of the zone. He is 0 for two outside from Rogers with a change up count even up at a ball and a strike. Mariners have won eight in a row and we’ve been pitching to them at a rate of one run per game and they’re in a position to win both of those games. But the but our offense is fine. Our philosophy is fine. Our coaching staff is fine. One- one pitch inside. Two and one. No, we just hit into a lot of bad luck, you know. Hey, just keep looking at the metrics. Don’t use your eyeballs. Two-1 pitch. Hit in the air on the right side. And Mayo has a look and he will make the catch leaning up against the camera well adjacent to the oral dugout over there at first base side. Second out of the inning. The worst part about all this is if that uh Johnson in center field if he plays that ball and trying to instead of trying to go back and potentially make a catch that he never had a chance to make. He should have set himself up to play that ball off the wall. Here’s a pop up to Holiday in shallow center field. He’ll make the catch. The inning is over, but the Mariners finally get on the board first here in the top of the seventh. A triple by Julio Rodriguez and then an RBI from Josh Naylor to drive him in. Seventh inning stretch time in Baltimore, folks. This score line looks familiar, don’t it? Well, we’ve got uh some traditions around here. No matter what’s happening, this offense, this offense should be very, very hungry. Let’s try to feed him. Maybe some carbs will help. It’s time to throw some cakes on the griddle. Thank god I’m a country boy. Thank god I’m a country boy. Thank god I’m a country boy. Thank god I’m a country boy. Rachel, let me help you out. All right. This team does have a lot of good hitters. They are being coached terribly. They are being managed terribly. They are being there’s no leadership. There’s no identity to this team. Uh there’s no emphasis on working on fundamentals, uh situational hitting. It’s it’s not the players. The players are good. We’ve seen what these players can do when uh the when the uh uh uh you know, when everything else is is okay. We we know Gunnar’s been an all-star, a rookie of the year and a MVP runnerup. Adley has been an all-star. Westberg has been an all-star. Uh, you know, Cowser had a good rookie season, finished second place to win that award. I mean, this core group of players, they they are good. But something happened. All-Star break last year. Ever since it’s been uh you know Mount Castle first pitch swinging. That ball is going to bounce on the top of the wall and over by. Unbelievable. An ambush from Mounty. First pitch. He goes opposite field and we get the kindest bounce you’ll ever see. It hits the top of the wall and sails over into the bleachers. We have tied it up one pitch into the bottom of the seventh. How’s that for a rally in the seventh inning, folks? Come on now. Hello. We just hit a home run. Somebody act like it. Good grief. Thank you. You know, hello. Is this thing on? Look, I get it. It’s been a tough watch with this offense. We just tied up the ball game with a home run. You might want to enjoy that. Just some advice. Two and0 on Ryan Nota. Line drive. Fouled down the right field line. Come on, Charm City. Damn. We spent two hours moping. Hell, longer than that. There was a rain delay. The crowd at the ballpark seems to be making noise. What is going on with my chat? We got a lot of people watching. Not a whole lot of people chatting. 2-1 pitch as a called strike. Two and two to not one-1 ball game. Bottom of the seventh. A game-tying home run from Ryan Mount Castle. swinging at the first pitch he saw from Gilbert. Just got enough opposite field, hit the top of the wall, and bounced over. You’ve seen a ball hit like that, bounce right back into the field of play. More often than not, not strikes out on a slider from Gilbert. One away. Wow. So, that pitch from Gilbert on replay actually did Mount Castle a lot of favors. It was a fast ball that tailed right back over the middle. If it didn’t move, Mounty probably doesn’t barrel it up. Ooh, Mayo right center. That ball’s going to get down for a hit. Is he thinking two? It’s a wide turn at first, but he’ll go back. He hit the right center field gap with a base hit. A nice crack of the bat from Mayo. Second hard hit ball of the inning off of Gilbert. Might his day be nearing done. Come on, Mayo. Let’s get it all on there. Just spread it out. All right. I don’t think we can use the mountain as a nickname for Mount Castle. That name’s already been taken. That’s going to do it for Logan Gilbert on the night, folks. That hit from Kobe Mayo chases Gilbert out of the ball game. He cannot win. He can only lose or get a no decision with that runner stranded right now on base. Call to the bullpin for the Mariners. We are in the bottom of the seventh inning. 1-1 ball game. Kobe Mayo at first with one out. And the Mariners go to their bullpen first. Folks, Rogers, seven innings, 95 pitches. Gilbert 6 and a3 79 pitches. Rogers 1.43 erra. Are you kidding me? Even that’s after giving up the run. As good of a pitcher as Gilbert is, Rogers’s RA is less than half. Less than half. And that’s why I’m calling him Michael Miracle Whip. Miracle Whip. I know it’s never going to catch on. I’ll work on it. You guys work on it, too. I don’t mind the submissions. I know I knocked a few of them down. I had my reasons. I think between all of us though, we can come up with a a suitable nickname for this guy. He’s just too good to not have one. Oh, these kids are getting hammered by Mr. Splash. All right. Oh, yeah. Nope. Thank you there, Rachel. Uh, I mean George Roger Ramjet. Roger. Roger. What’s your vector, Victor? Gabe Spire, the lefty, is on for the 55th time this season. He is a guy that is not easy to go after if you’re a lefty. 220 erra. 89 whip, 185 average against. And that number is incorporating righties and lefties. Lefties take all those numbers and lower them even more. But it’s not a lefty up to hit. It’s Jeremiah Jackson getting a pinch hit roll here. He is hitting in place of Daniel of Daniel Johnson. And the first pitch is ball one. Jeremiah Jackson, folks. You know what he used to be? Jeremiah. That’s right. Mayo at first. The 10 hitting the right going back at the wall. That ball is off the wall and it bounces far away from Dylan Moore. Mayo’s hitting third. He’s coming home. The relay is not in time. The ball gets away and gets all the way into uh out of bounds. So, Jackson will come all the way home. It’s a tworun triple slash error slash inside the park home run. I don’t know what you want to call it, but it’s 3 to one Baltimore, folks. Where’ that come from? It’s magic. Dylan Carlson going down the right field line and that ball’s dropped. That ball’s flat out dropped out there by Dylan Moore. It’s a foul ball. But what has happened to Moore out there? He made a diving catch a couple of innings ago. Pretty impressive. Now he misplays a ball in the corner from Johnson. or Jackson, excuse me. And now here’s a foul popup and he drops it. It was just a foot away from being fair. He’s lucky that’s not a fair ball. The Mariners have collapsed. Logan Gilbert with a scowl on his face, wondering what the hell happened. He’s on the hook for the loss. Line drive, opposite field, base hit for Carlson. Where’d that come from? An inside out swing. Why is my voice at this register? It’s like everything is surprising me and this is the only way I can speak about it. The bottom of the order getting it done against this Mariner pitching staff. I’m a little bit shocked. Hello. Three to one Baltimore. A runner on at first with one out. What in the all types of blue hell is going on here tonight? Gabe Spire has come in and everything has gone pants for the Mariners. He will face Jackson Holiday now. Lefty on lefty and first a check on Carlson who’s backstanding. One out. Carlson at first. two all three runs are in here in the bottom of the seventh. We’ve gone from nothing to a three to one lead. Holiday goes opposite field. That ball’s falling and it’s a diving catch made by a Rosarena. Holiday robbed. A low liner to left hung up just enough for Rosena to get under it and make the catch. Two down. This game got exciting fast. I’d hate to be the person that went up to go take a bathroom break these last five minutes or so at the ballpark. You just missed the whole damn game. Here’s Jordan Westber. Well, West is that way. All right. What do you do for me, Rachel? Who are you? Who are you? Check on Carlson again. He is back. Westber is 0 for two tonight. He did walk though his last time up. A good at bat against Gilbert. Spire’s pitch is hit on the ground to third. Suarez with a late throw and a soft throw to first. Naylor can’t handle it and Westber is going to reach. Folks, suddenly the Mariners are playing kind of bush league out here. Defense is looking shaky. Another base runner for Baltimore. Let’s see how they score this. It looks like Westber might have beaten it out even if but Suarez really had nothing behind that throw. That was a lob. I think they’re going to call that a hit. It is an infield single. Carlson moves up to second base. Two down, folks. And Gunner up next. His name’s Gunner and he’s dating my mom. So Isaac, you’re the one you’re the one who picked the perfectly wrong time to leave. Well, Isaac, can you do us a favor? Could you leave again? Cuz we’ll tell you when to come back, but I mean, we’ve been doing really good while you’re gone. We got Gunner up. Could you just leave the room for a sec? Come back in like two minutes. Isaac, come on. Help us out, man. Gunner up with two down. First and second. Spire’s pitch is a foot outside. Ball one. His name’s Gunner and he’s dating my mom. All right. I Now, Isaac, I want you back. I want you back. Check back in two or three minutes. It’s all superstition, man. You understand? All right. Hurry up. Leave. All right. One and one on Gunner. Two down, two on. Three runs in for the Orioles. Hello. Here comes the pitch from Spire. Swing and a miss. Nasty slider. Lefty on lefty hitting the outside corner at the bottom of the zone. One ball, two strikes. I have not seen a shot of the Orio bullpen yet. I have to think Rogers is done on 95, but who knows? They’re asking a lot out of their starters with the the shape of the current bull bullpen, but those guys still need to get some innings. swing and a miss. Gunner chased a high fast ball and shows his frustration, slamming down the bat, the helmet, the gloves, the whole spiel. And the inning is over. The Orioles though, instant offense sort of. I mean, that Jackson triple really helped out. Two errors in the inning it looks like for the Mariners. And the Orioles up to seven hits. Suddenly, it’s not been such an anemic offense. Seven hits, one hit per inning against this Mariners pitching staff is, you know, it’s at least par for the course compared to, you know, good offenses out there. You’re not going to normally put up a huge number on the Mariners. Uh, we got a three spot right there. thanks to their defense and some timely hitting from some of these guys at the bottom of the order. Really surprising. I enjoyed that inning. Mayo with the hit. Jackson with the triple. Carlson got the hit. Good to see. We go now to the eighth inning, folks. Three to one Baltimore. Huh? Huh? What did I tell everybody? That’s right. We can’t have anyone freak out out there. Okay. We’ve got to keep our composure. We’ve come too far. There’s too much to lose. We got to keep our composure. Exactly. This being Baltimore and all. You never heard of Baltimore style. This is great iced tea. Sure is. folks. We are all on beaver watch just maybe a few days away. Nice beaver. Thank you. Beaver watch is on. Just a couple of days away from service time manipulation complete. It’s going to be Dietrich Ends. Ends looked good in his last outing to get the final two outs of the eighth inning and then Aken with a one-run lead came on and blew it. That’s a soft ball hitting the left. It’s going to drop in front of Carlson. Oh boy. JP Crawford up there. First pitch swinging goes to the opposite field. The ball’s not hit hard, but it finds some real estate. And the Mariners have the leadoff man on just like that tying run coming up with nobody out. Carlson went into a slide. His number one job here was to just keep that ball from getting by him or else we’d have a runner at third instead of first for the Mariners. Here’s Dylan Moore who had a really forgettable inning in the field the last half inning. misplayed a triple in the corner and then dropped a foul ball popup. He’s quickly behind 0 and2 defensively for Baltimore. Greg Allen now in center field. Jackson moves into right which would indicate Ryan Nota now out of the ball game. Swing and a miss. Moore goes down on three pitches. Good morning, good afternoon, and good night. Check that. Jackson and Allen replacing two players, Daniel Johnson and Ryan Nota. So Johnson, who started the game in center, Greg Allen’s playing there now. Jackson, meanwhile, in right field where Nota is playing earlier. We good? Great. Here’s Randy Arosena. He is 0 for three and he takes ball one. 10 is off the plate. 2 and 0. A Rosa’s average has dropped below 250 with his O for tonight. There’s a strike, a change up. Not a location I’d like to see him hit again, but looks like a Rosarena was taking. Swing and a miss. Now he was not taking there. He wound up for a big swing and chased the fast ball up and away. Came up with error. It’s two and two. By the way, Yinier Canó is getting loose in the Orio bullpen. This one’s lifted to center. Can of corn out there for Greg Allen. Newly into the ball game. He makes the catch. Two down with the runner still at first base. Folks, start counting the outs. But first, actually, don’t. Let’s worry about this batter first. because it’s Cal Rally at the plate. He represents the tying run and whenever a guy in mid August is at the plate sitting on 45 home runs, uh you want to just worry about getting through him now. First pitch he goes after, fouls it away. A change up from ends. It’s one. Careful, careful, careful pitch. A good spotted sinker that got Raleigh to go after it. He could only foul it away. The count is 0 and2, folks. One strike away from getting out of this inning. Two down, 0 and two. The pitch hit. Foul rolled over by Raleigh on the left side. The Orioles will have a chance to get some insurance in the bottom half of the inning with Rutman, Mount Castle, and Greg Allen. do up I think. Yes, that is right. That pitch is low. One and two on Raleigh. Thank you for that stinking like there, Logan. Folks, think about subscribing by the way if you’re watching right now. It’s free. No commitment, no obligation. No salesman will visit your home. The one two to Raleigh. swinging a miss and Dietrich ends pumps his fist points to the sky. He strikes out a catcher who’s having perhaps the best power hitting season in the history of the position. A guy who represented the tying run ends strikes him out and we go now to the bottom of the eighth. The Orioles lead three to one. Well, y’all come back now. You hear? All right, folks. This is my really only window of opportunity to try to pitch to you. I got no sponsors. The only advertisement is regular YouTube ads running at a regular rate. Otherwise, this channel is completely uh put together by uh help from the community. And as you can see, the the channel is growing nicely. Started last year, we got 3,200 plus subscribers. If you are watching right now and you have not subscribed, I’m urging you to give it a try. It’s free. 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He seems kind of a middle guy in this uh not a high leverage guy. Pretty high RA for the bullpen. 372 a 135 whip. Adley Rutman will lead it off. Mount Castle will be up next. Adley’s 0 for three, batting from the left side for the first time today. No, he’s not. He had Gilbert up there. I don’t know why I said that. Just forget that last comment. And Rutchman takes a strike at the top of the zone on the outside corner. It’s 0 and one on Adley. Let the clutch out gently. Okay, this one’s hit hard down the right field corner off the screen down there. Strike two. Yeah, that’s right. Big dumper. Dumper. I hardly know her. Right. It’s It’s not the most flattering name, but uh you know, Cal Riley uh wears it with pride. He knows he’s got a big old fat uh posterior. Right. Hit on the ground to first. Naylor stops it, gets up and will just jog over to the bag to beat Rutman out for an unassisted ground out. That is the first out here in the bottom of the eighth. Three to one Baltimore. Game started late with a rain delay. We have not had any weather issues once the game started. Hopefully, we’ll be in the clear tomorrow as well. We’ve got a day game, folks. A day game and what we’re hoping will be the rubber game of this series. Ryan Mount Castle looks at a pitch high for ball one. Last time up, Mounty got the scoring started, tying up the ball game with a home run off of Gilbert to right center field. Just clearing the It didn’t even clear the wall. It hit the top of the wall and then bounced over for the home run. fouled away. One ball, one strike. So, tomorrow’s game again, folks, 105 first pitch. The stream will start at 12:50 p.m. Mount Castle center field. Backing up is Rodriguez, but he’s got room just in front of the track and right center to make the catch. Two down. The matchup tomorrow on the mound and we’ll have Tomayyuki Sagano going up against right-hander Logan Evans. This is the third different announced pitcher for this game the Mariners have listed since the start of this series. They can’t seem to decide who they wanted, but for now it’s the righty Logan Evans. I got to make a change to the thumbnail. Here’s Greg Allen. came into the ball game as a defensive replacement. First time up to hit and he swings and misses on a pitch a foot outside. He’s 0 for 12 at the plate as an oral. Takes here outside. One ball, one strike. So, Sigo with a 9 and5 record, an RA of 4.24. Allen behind now, one ball, two strikes on a swing and a miss. Evans with a record of six and four with a similar erra of 436. That is tomorrow’s matchup once again. 12:50 p.m. The stream will start swinging and a miss. Allen goes down on strikes to end the eighth inning. Folks, we are going to the ninth. Yinier Canó is going to be called on to close the door. Close the door. Close the door. Close the door, folks. That’s right. When it comes to closing out games, the best thing the Orioles can do is just move the uh roll around. Don’t designate any of these guys. Don’t anoint any of these guys. Just pick the guy that makes the sense for that game depending on effectiveness in recent games, availability, lefty, righty matchups. Don’t just try to name one guy like you tried to do to my boy Keegan Aken a couple of games ago. That was the second time he called upon him to close out a one-run game in the ninth. And that second time he did it was after Dietrick Ends had finished the eighth inning on just nine pitches. He could have easily stayed in the ball game. He looked fine and he’s a lefty already. So by going to Aken, another lefty in that spot, you told Aken, you’re our ninth inning guy by doing that. And what happened? I can tell you what happened. It negatively affected Keegan Aken because once you’re a reliever and you’re told now you’re the guy you the mentality changes. It’s best to not designate any of these guys in our bullpen as the closer. Let it naturally happen if it does. But I can tell you this, Keegan Aken is not that guy. I love Keegan Aken. He’s a good reliever, but he doesn’t have that kind of ninth inning stuff that a closer needs to have. And frankly, I don’t know if the mentality is there either. Uh, as long as you’re going to anoint him a closer. He came in two games earlier, got the three outs on a one-run lead. So, he’s capable of doing it. But that was when he wasn’t anointed. You folks feel me? Okay. I talked about this a lot on my Discord. It’s Yiani Air Canó’s turn, folks. It is the ninth inning, 48th appearance of the season. He’s got an erra a little above five. He will be facing the 345 hitters for the Mariners, starting with Julio Rodriguez. If anybody gets on, the tying run comes up. So, go after him. First pitch is a strike, a sinker. Well spotted by Canó on the outside corner at the knees. Rodriguez hit a triple his last time up and came around the score. The only run of the night so far for Seattle. That ball’s lined and a base hit in a center field. Looked like another sinker from Canó. And Rodriguez is on just like that. And now you got Suarez and Naylor, two power hitters coming up back to back representing the tying runs. Suarez is one for three and he takes inside ball one. We need a ground ball not hit all that hard. I guess I’m guessing that’s why Jordan’s here to watch since he already knows the outcome. There’s a called strike. Count one and one. Here’s a ground ball foul. Third base side. One and two on Suarez. Aken’s not a bad pitcher. He’s just not a closer. It’s the Orioles to blame for trying to make him one. One two pitch off the plate outside. Two and two. Big pitch right here. I don’t want to see a full count. He can’t get the chase on the change up low. And the count is full now on Suarez. Runner at first. Nobody out. Suarez can strike out and he can hit into a double play. What is going to happen? It’s inside for ball four. First two men on for Seattle. And Josh Naylor comes up as the wouldbe go ahead run. Here we go. Lefties are hitting 333 off a canoe on the season. That is not something you want to hear. This is going to take something special from Canó. You got to lock in, buddy. Ball game on the line. First pitch to Naylor. Low and in ball one. Oh, folks. Swagger canoe. Where is it? Where is that swagger? That’s low. He’s not chasing, dude. He’s not going to chase. Not until you at least even up the count. Two and0 on Naylor. P. Oh, Canó turns around. Rodriguez back to second base without a throw. Here’s the 2. Naylor shows bunt. Runner goes to third and he is safe. Julio Rodriguez steals third base and it’s a double steal. They both stole. So there goes your double play opportunity. And a base hit now would tie the ball game. There’s still nobody out. Not the worst throw down by Rutchman. A third. It was just late. This game is very close from unraveling. 2-1 pitch. hit on the ground hard right to Holiday. That’ll score a run and move the tying run to third with only one out. It is now three to two. We finally get the first out. But how do we get out of this game? Needing two more outs. The Mariners tying run 90 ft away. Okay, we’ve got some chess moves happening here. Dominic Canzone announced as a pinch hitter, the lefty and Canó having faced three batters. Manelino is going to go to a lefty to play the matchup. And it’s back to Keegan Aken. I think it’s time for the hat. I think we’re going to need the hat on this one. Oh my Oh my folks. Ah, come on. on the hat. I can’t get through this alone. I need you on my head. If I had a nickel for every time I’ve said that. Well, what lefty would you like to bring in, Jordan? Or do would you rather have kept Canó out there? Jordan, who who are you calling instead of Aken? I’m I’m interested. Have you noticed who what options we have? What do you got, Jordan? Who you calling on? You want wolf in the spot? Come on, help me out, man. I I can name all the guys we have. How about uh let’s see. Uh we could have gone to Rico Garcia or Jerem Heraldo or Corbin Martin or Cage Straoud or Grant Wolfram. Those sound better. All right, lefty on lefty. Akin versus Canzone. He’s hitting .280. Seven homers, 18 RBI. Well, that’s what I would have done with ends two games ago. This one’s hit towards center. It’s not that deep. They’re going to test the arm here. Allen clutched it, didn’t he? He did. Terrible throwin. Terrible throwin. Game will be tied on a sack fly to shallow center. Two down in the ninth. Base is empty. Aken didn’t do anything wrong. I need to see what are they picking up the phone about. Uh, I guess we wouldn’t have gotten them any either way. Here’s a pop up to right. This is going to send the game to the bottom of the ninth. Tied at three. All right. Well, folks, look at it this way. We Hold on. We have not had a walk off win all season long. This seems like the night to do it. It’s a tie game going into the bottom of the ninth. Can we walk off a freaking game once this season? It’s mid August. We’re the only team that hasn’t done it. Tune in and find out. I need a break. Be right back. He met a strange friend in the chess. Bay when Northern Grower, you couldn’t keep it in the chamber for a few extra minutes, man. It’s your fault. Sorry, Charm City chat. Sorry. I knew it was somebody’s fault around here. That’s all right, Northern Grow. We’re going to walk it off just like you crabwalked your way to the toilet 10 minutes ago. We’re going to walk this off. All right. Is that Kobe Mayo? Matt Brash. A righty on. Boy, those numbers are intimidating. A6RA, a 110 whip. He’s only given up one home run ball in 31 innings. So, if you’re looking for the walk-off homer, it’s not likely, which would make it so much fun, wouldn’t it? First pitch to Kobe Mayo is a slider that could have been called a strike. Top of the zone, but it’s ball one. Come on, Kobe. Let’s get it all on there. Just spread it out. There’s another slider in there for strike one. One ball, one strike. How you doing, everybody? Just enjoying a lucky here in the late tie ball game here. Late game with a rain delay and all. Another slider in there for a strike. Brash has a good slider. That is pretty easy to see. The one two got him. Just another slider. And that one perfect for chasing one out of the zone. I mean that is perfect. It starts in the zone. Hard break late. Mayo is toast. Here’s Jeremiah Jackson. He had that big triple to kick off that big three-run rally. Unfortunately, we could not maintain the lead and we’re still playing baseball. First pitch to Jackson’s ball one or Jeremiah Jeremiah Jackson of course foul ball one ball one strike three ball game bottom of the ninth pitch inside by some amount. It’s two and one. Ground ball to third. Should be routine. Suarez over to first in time. Two down. I would say it’s more annoying when they were not scoring any runs, which means if you can’t score, then there’s no lead to give up. At least they got a lead. That’s been different than recent outings. But I I I feel you. I feel you. I feel you. It’s a bullpin game at this point. I’m just happy Rogers won’t get a loss like Kramer did last night. Was that last night for Kramer? I can’t even remember. Uh, pitch low 2 and 0. The Orioles are invested in this. The entire team in the dugout is on the railing. 200 pitch to Carlson is a called strike. A back door slider from Matt Brash. Next one is a swung on a missed 96 with the heater. Carlson couldn’t really ask for a better location. Right down the gut. Two balls, two strikes, two out. Outside, full count. Come on. One last chance for a big swing. I don’t want to go to extras. I want to win right now. I don’t like ghost runners. Line drive. Base hit into right field for Carlson. his second hit of the night. Carlson’s been 0 for I don’t know post allstar break until yesterday and now he’s got a two hit game here. 100 miles an hour off the bat. That is the winning run on at first with two down. Jackson Holiday, you are due, sir. Come on. Jackson with a big cut on that slider low and in. He missed it. 0 and one. Holiday is 0 for four. He could walk it off. Just a hitting the gap could do it. The 01 pitch way outside. One ball, one strike, folks. Come on, Charm City. I can’t see those animated heart emojis, but hopefully somebody’s pressing on them and giving us some good luck. The pitch outside again. Two in one, folks. Get those hearts moving. Come on, Jackson. The 2-1 line drive. Fair ball down the right field line. It’s a fair ball all the way into the corner. Come on. Keep coming. Keep coming home. No throw. And we have walked it off. The Orioles have won it. A walk off down the right field line for Holiday. He’s being mobbed by his teammates. The fireworks have gone off. We’ve done it. Final score, Orioles four, Mariners three. Some things are worth the wait. It’s magic, you know. Splash it up. Charm City chat. And folks, folks, the most amazing thing is while I was freaking out during that call, this glass bottle dropped onto a lenolum floor from about 2 feet off the ground and somehow did not break. We’re unbreakable. How did that glass not break? I don’t know. Jackson, how will they that ball kept just fair down the right field line into that corner. The perfect spot to send Carlson all the way around from first. Not even time for a relay throw. Forget about it. A walk-off win for the first time this year. How about that? And look at Westber coming out. He wants a big hug from Westber. Goes right after Holiday’s jersey to rip it off. That’s Westber’s mission. Get that jersey off, kid. Everybody tearing at Holiday. Holiday looks like he’s being swarmed by a bunch of fire ants. Oh my. I’m sure he’s going to get a pie to the face or something. Come on. Dunk this kid with some Gatorade. He’s getting interviewed right now on the sideline. First W. There it is. There’s the Gatorade bath. I couldn’t catch who uh gave it. They were in and out of the frame quick. There is ice just sitting on the shoulders of Jackson Holiday. Ah, there you go. Cool down. Cool off. Holy cow. Folks, I mean, a win like that, if you’re in the mood to say something to BW, to say thanks for the call, my man. Had a lot of fun. Now would be the time to do it. Hint hint. Just throwing it out there. Hey, let’s look at this box score. And yes. Okay. Who gets the win? You’re probably wondering. So am I. I’m on the wrong page. I’ll be there in a sec. Where the hell are we? There we go. All right, your pitcher of record, Keegan Aken, will get the win, folks, despite uh coming in and allowing that sack fly to to tie the ball game up. Uh Matt Brash will get the loss. Only his first loss of the season. And again, folks, what a pitching matchup this was. Trevor Rogers against Logan Gilbert. It was as good as advertised. Rogers gives up just one earned run in seven innings, lowering his erra now to 1.43. He did not walk anybody and struck out six. In fact, the Orioles combined on the night just one walk to Mariner batters. He outdooled Gilbert. What can you say? Gilbert only went six and a third. He did give up a couple of walks and he gave up two earned runs to Rogers one. He out pitched Gilbert. Hey, we got a super chat. IndyJ, how about that? Where’s the button message for you, son? Thank you so much, IndyJ, for your support on the channel. You’re always good about doing that. I appreciate it. We’ve had a nice turnout tonight, folks. Probably the rain delay playing a part in that. Oh, Melanie Newman. What are we wearing tonight? Hello, Melanie. I’m feeling a little bit frisky after this one tonight. Uh, what do you got going on after the postgame show? You got some plans? Oh, look at those nails. Somebody went and got a manicure. All right, I better I better focus. Uh, so yeah, the pitching. Uh, great. Uh, Yenni or Canó uh, not included. Cano uh, was not the guy to go to for the ninth. But hey, credit to Manscolino. Credit to Manelino. He brought in Cano. He faced a minimum three batters required. As soon as the Mariners announced a left-handed pinch hitter, he said, “Great. You just gave me a reason to go to the pin for somebody else.” Even though Aken did give up that gametying sackfly, it was a pretty shallow hit ball. It wasn’t hit all that hard and it was more on Canó than on Aken that that game got blown in the ninth. But uh yeah, we got to Matt Brash. That guy is not easy to get to, folks. Not easy to get to at all. Even the run he gave up, his RA sits right now at 1.42. 42. Uh, so that was the the probability of walking it off against a guy like Brash like that. Pretty damn low. But Jackson Holiday, the kid coming through. Time of the ball game 2 hours and 25 minutes. Although that does not include a rain delay. That pretty much made this a three-hour plus ball game. And attendance tonight 17,290. Uh, not a great turnout, but they had to withstand bad weather, wait for the game to start, but fans have stuck around to the end, got to see what no other fans have seen in person this season, and that’s an Orioles walk-off win. Fantastic. All right, we got a rubber game coming up tomorrow afternoon. Getaway day, travel day for the Mariners and Baltimore. We will be playing Friday night in Houston. So, we’re going to get this game going tomorrow early. 12:50 p.m. Folks, if you’ve got one of those Monday through Friday checking at work kind of uh 9 to5 gigs, you know what to do. Sneak in those earbuds. Sneak in that device. Go find a corner of the office or construction site or wherever the hell you’re working and tune on into the ball game. You don’t have to completely play hookie, folks. You can still get paid to be on the clock and hang out over here. Just don’t get caught. All right. Uh, good. I’m glad we’re all on board with that idea. Let’s see. The last time the Orioles had to wait this long for a walk-off at home was in 2019. They took one extra game. By the way, here’s an interesting fact. The 1978 St. Louis Cardinals remain the only team since the start of division play in 1969 to go an entire season without a walk-off win. It’s only happened to one team once in the past nearly 60 years. Luckily, we’re not joining that list. We’ve got ours. We’ve got a walk-off. fun to call it. Fun playing Yatsi earlier and whatever else we were doing. All right, I think it’s time to about wrap it up, folks. You got anything on your minds? Pretty quiet group. I’m gonna have to work on bringing somebody on as a guest if they’re just a single individual and they’re regularly on or some I just I’d like to have a little bit of a conversation in these postgame wrapups and not just monologue this whole thing. I I mean I’m sitting here with my opinions. I want to hear more. Maybe that’s the number one thing to work on for season three of this channel is to try and get you guys on board to do a little bit of a postgame interaction. Get your thoughts on the game, not just mine. And and and I promise scouts honor. If you’re opinion is different than mine, I’m not going to trash you. I’ll behave. I’ll behave. All right. Anyway, uh yeah, we got a game coming up again in about 13 hours or so. So, probably best for me to go ahead and get out of here and uh spend the rest of my waking hours chilling. We’re ready for next season already. Well, Rachel, I got a channel to run with about 44 games to go or whatever it is. So, please try to hang in there for now. Rachel. Rachel, again, there’s things to still enjoy about this season. I’m just as disappointed as you are and everybody else, okay? We’re not going to the postseason. There’s a lot of excuses or legitimate reasons for fans to want to just check out entirely until next year. But look, you know, uh, as much as I can’t stand how this team was, you know, misdirected and I feel like the people in charge that led us the wrong way should uh be held accountable and changes should be made. And I’m not going to feel 100% confident about this team going in the next season if those changes are not made. But despite what might be some incompetence uh in the front office or amongst the coaching staff, there are still players on this team that I enjoy watching even with the state of the club the way it is. And you again, Trevor Rogers being the number one guy. Tell me this, Rachel, at minimum you’re going to be here for every Trevor Rogers start the rest of the way, right? You That goes for all of you. Do not miss a Trevor Rogers start. You’re watching an Ace Cook out there. We haven’t had one for a while. I mean, honestly, better than Corbin Burns. Better. He can even hold base runners on. Remember how Corbin Burns was unable to do that? Uh, so yeah, be here for that. Uh, Kobe Mayo, watching him mature. It’s worth watching. Uh Jackson Holiday just hit a walk-off. He’s been struggling lately, but maybe that’ll get him going. There’s reasons, folks. There’s reasons. And on a on a night where we’re getting our butts kicked, don’t worry. I’ll check in with Norfolk and Delm Marva and all the other uh Oh, yeah. Beavers and Basio getting called up anytime now between this weekend and the end of the month. I my guess is Beavers will get called up first. I don’t think they’ll call them both up on the same day. That almost screams like, “Hey, look at us manipulating service time.” I think they’ll call up Beavers first. I think they will do it on Monday. They They need a real outfielder that can actually provide some offense. Uh, I can’t see them waiting more than a day beyond the first day he’s eligible with this uh, rookie status for next season. So, but Basio, uh, I I’m going to guess they’re going to wait till September 1st. I’m I’m just guessing, but we’ll see. Either way, both are going to be up. Basio, by the way, happy birthday. Turned 21 today. anything I want Poseidio to do is uh go out and maybe have a drink. Don’t get sauced. You know, you still got to treat your body right. You’re a professional athlete. Sorry. You can you can drink all day when you retire, but uh you know, go out there and celebrate. You turn 21. It only happens once. I know what my 21st birthday was like. And be honest, I’m lucky I’m still alive. Oh my, I might have done a little bit too much. I should share a story about my 21st birthday sometime. May 21st, 1988. Uh there are events that happened that can be uh researched and verified. So, you know, I’m not telling you a madeup story, but that’s for another day, folks. Right now, I’m going to savor this walk-off win, and I hope you do the same. Let me see if there’s somewhere I can send you, and then I’ll be on my merry way. I want to thank the mods in the Charm City chat for another bangup job keeping the chat nice and charming. And uh wait a minute, that’s a final. I’m not buying this. All right. I’m looking at the games that are currently on. Yankees Twins, Mets, Braves, Dodgers, Angels, Rays. Why is this telling me all these other guys are live? They’re not live. Their games ended. I think I’m just going to sign off, folks. I think my buddies are all done calling games for the day. That’s what happens when uh you’re the one with the rain delay. All right, so 12:50 p.m. tomorrow, first pitch just after 1:00. Be here. All right, I hope you guys enjoyed the call. I really appreciate uh the support and the various ways. Like button, super chats, memberships, the whole shebang. Until tomorrow afternoon, folks. Have a good night. This has been the bird watcher and the hat. Don’t forget about how the hat arrived late to somehow watch this team figure out a way to walk it off. See you tomorrow. We will chirp at you later. Take care everybody.

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